(Christian Post) An Arizona man was found guilty by a federal jury of targeting four churches as part of a hoax bomb threat aimed at disrupting their worship services.
Zimnako Salah, a 45-year-old resident of Phoenix, was found guilty on Thursday of securing a backpack around a toilet at a California church as part of the bomb threat.
Salah traveled to four churches in three states — California, Arizona and Colorado — with a black backpack in tow. At two of the churches he managed to leave the backpacks containing the hoax bomb threats. At two other locations, however, he was stopped by church security.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release on Friday, Salah had also been in the process of building an actual bomb that could fit inside a backpack.
