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5. The article left out his felony conviction and mental illness
Wed May 15, 2013, 01:19 PM
May 2013
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Raymond-Rodden/272813404

Raymond Rodden III, 24, a former part-time business student at Pima Community College, was sentenced to 1.5 years after he pleaded guilty to the felony charge of engaging in a hoax.

Rodden sent an e-mail on Oct. 30 in which he threatened to shoot at least six students "or anyone else who gets in my way at the University of Arizona Library," two days after three nursing professors were slain at the college.

Rodden was among the first in the state to plead guilty to the charge of "hoax," in which someone gives the impression that "an act of terrorism" will take place and expects an emergency response by a governmental agency.

At the time he sent the threat, Rodden was already on federal probation in a 1999 case.Impersonating an actual U.S. Customs agent, Rodden called 911 to report he had been shot in the desert and couldn't move.Authorities conducted a search until the actual agent was reached at home.

Rodden, who said it started as a prank and he didn't intend for anyone to get hurt, asked for probation because he wanted to get treatment for bipolar disorder.

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