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No Jail for Joker in Bomb Threat at Woods Hole Ferry

Police told Patch the New Britain man was about to drive aboard a ferry to Martha's Vineyard on May 5, less than three weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, when he jokingly claimed he had a bomb in his car. Nobody laughed.

A New Britain, CT man who jokingly told Steamship Authority workers he had a bomb in his car was found guilty last week of threatening to commit the crime of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to the Cape Cod Times.


Krzysztof Malz
 was sentenced to two years' probation and a six-month suspended sentence, the Times reports.

Falmouth police told Martha's Vineyard Patch the 45-year-old Malz was preparing to drive aboard the last ferry to Vineyard Haven on the night of May 5 when he made the comment about the bomb during a security screening by SSA staff, who called police.

Malz's joke and arrest took place less than three weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings April 15.

To read the original police report, please see Bomb Threat Reported at Steamship Authority.

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