A HarvardUniversity student charged with making a hoax bomb threat to avoid taking a final exam was released on a $100,000 bond by a federal judge on Wednesday.
Investigators said Eldo Kim, 20, admitted to making the e-mailed threat that triggered evacuations on campus. Kim was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston and if convicted, he could be sentenced to as long as five years in prison, nike free running shoe three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
Kim was brought into court in handcuffs wearing Harvard sweatpants and a gray T-shirt. He did not enter a plea and spoke only to confirm to Magistrate Judge Judith Dein that he understood he has a right to remain silent and a right to an attorney.
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An agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation tracked Kim down on Monday night at his Harvard campus dorm. nike running shoes The FBI agent said in court papers that the student confessed to sending the hoax e-mails to university police, several administrators and the student newspaper.
The message said bombs had been placed in two of four named buildings and added, “guess correctly … be quick for they will go off soon.”
“Kim stated that he was in Emerson Hall at 9:00 a.m. when the fire alarm sounded and the building was evacuated,” said an affidavit by the FBI agent. nike free run 3 “According to Kim, upon hearing the alarm, he knew that his plan had worked.”
Kim is a sophomore, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported. He is a U.S. citizen who had renounced his Korean citizenship.
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Late last month, YaleUniversity in New Haven, Connecticut, placed its campus on lockdown for almost a day after an anonymous caller warned officials that his roommate was headed to the Ivy League school and planning to shoot people. No gunman was found, and police now regard that incident as a hoax.
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