Posted on 12/09/2007 12:19:29 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Fired UCSD worker tied to bomb hoax, arrested
By Susan Shroder
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
4:32 p.m. December 8, 2007
A UCSD employee who was fired from his job as a lab technician last week was arrested Saturday in connection with a bomb hoax Wednesday that targeted a research building on the La Jolla campus where he formerly worked.
Timothy Bryon Kalka, 50, of San Diego, was arrested without incident about 6 a.m. Saturday at his San Diego residence by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said.
Kalka is charged in a federal arrest warrant with providing false information or engaging in hoax activities pertaining to explosives. He was booked into the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego and was expected to appear Monday in federal court.
Foxworth said the arrest was a "direct result" of leads from the public that followed media broadcasts Thursday of a recording of a bomb threat phoned to the university. Some people who heard the recording “thought they recognized a voice” and called authorities, Foxworth said.
The FBI had also released to the media a copy of a letter that the university had received on Wednesday that stated a group called the Animal Liberation Front would detonate explosive devices at research buildings on the campus if research animals were not evacuated.
Foxworth said Saturday that he had no information to either confirm or deny a possible relationship between Kalka and the animal-rights group.
Kalka worked at the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building, which is where a suspicious device was found about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. He had been terminated by UCSD on Nov. 30, the FBI said.
Barry Jagoda, a UCSD spokesman, said Saturday he did not have information about Kalka's arrest or termination, and that university personnel matters are private.
All medical buildings on campus were evacuated Wednesday until an investigation determined the suspicious device was not a bomb.
He sounds like a disgruntled wormy little rat bastard.
His life is about to undergo some big changes...for the next ten years or so.
Bomb threat letter released by FBI (PDF):
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/images/071206ucsdletter.pdf
How pathetic do you have to be to get fired from a college research lab?
Hear the tape of the bomb threat telephoned in (.mp3):
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/audiovideo/071206ucsd.mp3
(He also misspelled “defenseless” and “sentient” but those aren't as striking. Har, har. ;-)
(It reminds me of Woody Allen in “Take the Money and Run”. He tries to rob a bank, but misspells the note ...)
Unusual for someone of that age to do this. I read about the last batch of ALF’s who were sent to the pokey. None of them had much to lose.
This sort of pastime has gotten a heckuva lot less popular since the FBI set up their task force in just the last few years. Adult-size prison sentences have convinced most of these adorable scamps that it isn’t worth it.
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