Patrick Cau, also known as Patrick Kaiser, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for making bogus bomb threats against United Airlines–his former employer.
The FBI said that he was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright on Monday.
Cau, whose from Dallas, pleaded guilty in August to a count of false information and hoaxes, reads a press release from the agency. He admitted to making eight bomb threats against the airliner from October 2012 and January 2013.
“In the first phone call, on October 4, 2012, Cau used a pay phone near his home to call an internal United crew scheduling number and state that a United flight from London to Los Angeles would be bombed later that day. Cau made the subsequent calls to 911 from pay phones in Los Angeles, New York City, Las Vegas, and Seattle, with all the calls stating that a specific United flight would be bombed,” the FBI press release reads.
Law enforcement agencies were called in to respond to the bomb threat hoaxes, and evacuation orders were carried out involved hundreds of passengers.
