A man who sent threatening letters to Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster has been arrested.
The 42-year-old man, named as Michael Smegal, was arrested yesterday on charges of mailing a bomb threat to a Los Angeles airport.
According to Reuters, Smegal was charged in a US District Court in Massachusetts with mailing a threatening letter to Van Nuys Airport in early December.
The letter was one of more than 100 nearly identical letters with references to Foster mailed to celebrities, business executives, airports and other locations around Los Angeles from September 2007 to January 2008, an affidavit said.
Foster began to receive threatening letters in 2004. In 2005 Smegal admitted to police he had sent the letters and promised to stop.
If convicted Smegal faces up to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
