Who would’ve thought a burrito could be so deadly?
An Albuquerque, N.M, man was arrested last week for threatening to blow up a federal building by sending a “a burrito with CO2 explosive inside of it,” NBC News reported.
Brian Demarco, 50, allegedly called the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Public Access Line on June 11, telling them about his burrito bomb. Demarco threatened to send the explosives to the FBI field office in Albuquerque.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the United States District Court of New Mexico, Demarco’s threat wasn’t the first. He allegedly threatened another building in New Mexico’s capital city and had made several terrorist threats to California in the past, Demarco told FBI investigators.
But Demarco called in the threat with the intention of ending up behind bars.
“He wanted to be sent to Federal prison,” the complaint said, according to NBC News. “The caller said that he wanted the voices and sounds to stop.”
According to the complaint, Demarco told the FBI he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
“Demarco stated that he was angry at the U.S. government because the government placed a tracking device inside his head and is watching him, in addition to beaming photons into his head,” the complaint said.
The FBI took Demarco into custody as he was boarding a bus to Amarillo, Texas, at the Albuquerque Greyhound bus station June 13. He faces charges of violating interstate communications and creating a hoax, San Antonio’s NBC News reported.
