Oregon man faces federal charges for making hoax bomb threats targeting Jewish hospitals and care centers across New York

An Oregon man who is accused of targeting several Jewish hospitals and care centers in New York City and Long Island with fake bomb threats was arrested on federal charges Tuesday, according to prosecutors.

Domagoj Patkovic, 31, of Portland, Oregon, is charged with multiple counts of conspiring to make and making threats concerning explosives, conspiring to transmit and transmitting threatening communications, and conveying false information concerning explosives, according to an indictment filed by prosecutors with the Eastern District of New York.

Patkovic allegedly made at least six violent and threatening phone calls to Jewish hospitals and a care center network between May and September of 2021. On these calls, Patkovic said he had planted bombs at these facilities and threatened to detonate them in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island, while also using anti-Semitic slurs, according to the indictment.

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