Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Fast Forward

Report: St. Louis Cops To Question JCC Bomb Threat Suspect Over Cemetery Vandalism

The alleged stalker charged today with making bomb threats to Jewish institutions will also face questioning from local Missouri police in connection with the vandalism last month at a St. Louis cemetery, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis today and charged with making threats to at least eight Jewish institutions in late January and February. According to the criminal complaint, he made the threats in a bizarre attempt to falsely implicate a woman who had ended a romantic relationship with him. Thompson, a former reporter for The Intercept, lives in St. Louis.

In mid-February, while Thompson was in the midst of trying to frame his victim as an anti-Semite, someone vandalized a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, damaging over 100 graves. The incident drew nationwide media attention.

Now, the Post-Dispatch reports that police in University City, Missouri, are planning on questioning Thompson about the cemetery vandalism. A spokesman for the department would not tell the paper whether Thompson was a suspect in the crime.

Two weeks after the desecration of the cemetery, no charges have been filed.

Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected]

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.