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In May state police in Tennessee arrested Jack Allan Iles and charged him with telephone harassment after he called in a bomb threat to the state attorney general’s office in Nashville. According to the employee who received the call, Iles threatened to deliver an Oklahoma City-style bomb and then asked for the address of the office.
A man brandishing a road flare that he called a bomb robbed a First National Bank branch in Farmington, New Mexico, in March and escaped in a white Dodge Caravan that he’d just taken out for a test drive from a local dealer. He was caught when he returned the car immediately after pulling off the robbery.
Jay Stanton Liebenow, 37, was arrested in Bethesda, Maryland, in July and charged with robbing a pharmacy. According to police, Liebenow successfully stole drugs, but was caught a few minutes later when he came back to steal syringes.
In February, on the day after New York governor George Pataki proposed that convicted rapists be forced to take AIDS tests, Brooklyn assemblyman Joseph Lentol accused Pataki of trying to “demean” sex criminals.
