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Security officer charged with mailing threats aimed at boss

Healthcare Security Weekly, December 18, 2006

FBI agents in early December arrested a 55-year-old hospital security officer on charges of using the U.S. mail to threaten bodily harm against the security chief at Tufts-New England Medical Center, reported the Boston Globe.

The man allegedly mailed a series of anonymous, typed letters for several years to three top administrators at the medical center, expressing unhappiness with leadership in the security department, the newspaper reported. But beginning last summer, the letters from an unnamed security employee began to threaten that the department chief might be killed or stabbed if hospitals officials did not fire him, reported the Globe, citing an FBI agent's affidavit filed with a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Boston.

The security officer resigned from the hospital October 6, a few days after an FBI special agent interviewed him about the letters, the newspaper reported. The letters cited the author's fear that the hospital would terminate the security staff and hire an outside contractor, which provides the hospital security workers on a per diem basis when needed, according to the FBI affidavit.

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