Jodie Foster stalker is arrested
A man wHO sent threatening letters to Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster has been arrested.
The 42-year-old isle of Man, named as Michael Smegal, was arrested yesterday on charges of mailing a bomb threat to a Los Angeles airdrome.
According to Reuters, Smegal was charged in a US Dominion Court in Massachuset with mailing a threatening varsity letter to Vanguard Nuys Drome in early Dec.
The letter was one of more than 100 nearly identical letters with references to Foster mailed to celebrities, business executives, airports and other locations around Los Angeles from September 2007 to January 2008, an affidavit said.
Foster began to welcome threatening letters in 2004. In 2005 Smegal admitted to police force he had sent the letters and promised to halt.
If convicted Smegal faces up to 10 days in prison house followed by terzetto eld of supervised dismissal and a $250,000 fine.
