New York Daily News

Teen busted in hate bomb threat vs. HS

- BY BEN CHAPMAN and GRAHAM RAYMAN With Andrew Keshner

COPS ARRESTED a 16-year-old Brooklyn student they say faxed a bomb threat to his high school targeting “Jew-loving teachers,” sources said Tuesday.

Detectives were investigat­ing whether Taku Nakano sent similar threats to Franklin D. Roosevelt High School on Dec. 6 and 11, police said.

Nakano allegedly sent Monday’s frightenin­g fax just after 10 a.m. to the 3,072-student school on 20th Ave. near 59th St. in the Mapleton neighborho­od. The fax said there were bombs in drawers that would detonate when a bell rang.

“It’s crazy,” Steven Camtave, 17, a 10th-grader, told the Daily News. “We didn’t expect it to happen again. We think it’s in connection to ISIS, but you never know.”

A school secretary received Monday’s fax and notified an administra­tor who called police.

Students and staff were ordered to stay in class while cops conducted a search of the building. They didn’t find any explosive devices.

Nakano was arrested later that day. He is charged with two felonies for making terrorist threats and a criminal terrorism charge as well as misdemeano­r harassment. He was taken to a hospital for observatio­n.

On Dec. 6, the school received a fax claiming a bomb containing the drug fentanyl was hidden in a paper towel dispenser in the cafeteria.

“Expect the followers of Allah to also bring judgment to the filthy Jewish dogs,” the fax read. On Dec. 11, the school received another threat.

“There are bombs placed all over the school’s trash cans outside of classroom and inside of classroom. Find them before blood will shed,” the message read.

“Allahu Akbar. This is what America gets for recognizin­g Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”

Nakano was not immediatel­y charged with the two earlier threats.

“He’s straight crazy,” a junior who declined to be named said. “I think he has something wrong in his head. I come to school to learn, not to fear things.”

The student added that Nakano called him a “filthy Muslim bomber” Friday in math class.

“I think he was just joking, but to me it was taking it too far, making fun of my religion,” he said. “Now that they caught him, I feel a little better.”

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