Foster’s Fan Busted for Poor Flightplan

This action-packed real life episode starring Jodie Foster didn’t go successfully as planned.

A Massachusetts guy was put under arrest Tuesday for purportedly sending a bomb threat that mentioned the Academy award-winning actress to a Los Angeles-area airport in December.

Michael Smegal, who pledged to stop the disturbing habit after confessing to postal supervisors in 2005 that he had been mailing unidentified correspondence to Foster for about a year, was brought into detention and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston.

As per FBI, in 2004, Smegal incorporated a phone number for a prepaid mobile phone in one of the parcels he mailed to Foster, alongside a demand for the actress to call the number.

“Law enforcement called the number and spoke to an individual who identified himself as Michael Smegal,” FBI Special Agent Joseph Altman wrote in an affidavit released Tuesday. “Smegal spoke with the agent and used the phone to send photographs of himself and his dog.”

According to Altman’s account, the note Smegal sent to Van Nuys Airport, mainly a landing spot for private aircrafts, is one of more than 100 near-identical reproduction of a correspondence sent to celebrities, businesses, airports and other L.A.-area sites between September 2007 and January.

A number of of them, counting the Van Nuys which threatened there’s “going to be a gas bomb this building,” have the words “Jodie Foster S.”

Subsequent to a search done at his home on Jan. 8, throughout which federal agents turned up more than a few copies of the precise letter sent to Van Nuys, Smegel pointed out that he sent those letters on Foster’s behalf, preferring airports in particular because of an apparent connection with the Screen Actors Guild, which he considered had affronted Foster in some way.

If found guilty of mailing a bomb threat to an airport, Smegal, might spend up to 10 years in behind bars and a $250,000 fine.

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