Student arrested in fake bomb garb
Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint after she walked into Logan International Airport in Boston wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt. Authorities called it a fake bomb; she called it art.
Star Simpson’s attorney said that arresting the 19-year-old was an overreaction, but authorities expressed amazement that someone would wear such a device eight months after an ad campaign led to a bomb scare and six years after two of the jets hijacked in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took off from Logan.
“I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport,” said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the airport’s commanding officer.
Simpson was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device. She was released on $750 bail.
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