U.S. Department of Justice

United States Attorney
District of Connecticut

PRESS RELEASE

March 17, 2009

INMATE CHARGED WITH MAILING BOMB THREAT TO FEDERAL AGENCY

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport returned an Indictment today charging GLEN SHARKANY, 40, with one count of making a bomb threat and one count of conveying false information.

The Indictment alleges that, on approximately September 29, 2008, SHARKANY sent a letter to the Social Security Administration in Norwalk, Connecticut, in which he had placed a diagram of an explosive device that included the words, “I’m going to blow up your office and the IRS office as well.”

SHARKANY is an inmate at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut.

If convicted, SHARKANY faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000, on each count.

Acting U.S. Attorney Dannehy stressed that an indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt.  The defendant is entitled to a fair trial at which it is the Government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the United States Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.  The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen Reynolds and Paul McConnell.