Bomb Threats Lead to Teen’s Indictment

A Brooklyn, N.Y., teenager was indicted on extortion charges for allegedly threatening to bomb the headquarters of IBM and Microsoft unless each company paid him $5 million. The threats came in e-mails addressed to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and IBM CEO Lou Gerstner. If convicted on both counts, 18-year-old Jahair Joel Navarro could be sentenced to 40 years in prison. No bombs were ever found, said FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette. But a raid on the youth’s apartment found literature on bomb making and terrorism that had been on his computer.