IRS

St. Louis Man Threatened To Bomb IRS Facility, Say Feds

Ryan J. Reilly | December 10, 2010, 8:45AM

Aaron Johnson, a 20-year-old St. Louis, MO resident, was charged this week with threatening to blow up an IRS facility. Federal prosecutors charge in an indictment that on April 14, Johnson called an IRS facility on South Grand in St. Louis.

The facility is described in an indictment as a records facility known as a "lockbox" which was being operated by an unnamed U.S. bank. Johnson allegedly called the telephone number associated with the lockbox and threatened to "blow up" the facility.

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