On the Path

Case Study of Bomb Hoaxes or 'Dry Runs' at American Churches


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Federal charges have been filed against an Arizona man accused of purposefully leaving a backpack in a California church's restroom in November 2023 to create the belief a bomb was inside.  The publicly released criminal complaint reveals that the man also left a backpack at an Arizona church and appeared to scope out two other churches in Colorado and California.  Concilium's Director of Analysis, J.D. VerHoeven, discusses what church safety teams can learn from these incidents.


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