A former Northeastern University employee has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for staging a hoax explosion.

A former Northeastern University virtual reality lab manager who faked a bomb explosion that injured only himself but required a major police response will spend a year in prison for his crime.

A former Northeastern University employee was sentenced on Monday for staging a hoax bomb explosion and making false statements to police about it, officials said.

Federal prosecutors say a former lab manager at Northeastern University has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent.

A former Northeastern University technology manager will serve time in federal prison for staging a bomb hoax and then making false statements to federal law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney said Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors had requested that prison term for Jason Duhaime, 47, writing last week that the “entire incident was a hoax orchestrated by the defendant for reasons that remain largely unclear.”

A former employee of Northeastern University was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday following his convicted for staging a hoax explosion in 2022 and fabricating a story about being injured after opening a package delivered to the school's campus in Boston.

The former Northeastern Universit​y employee convicted of staging a hoax explosion​ on campus will spend a year in prison.

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