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Article: OUTRAGED MENINO VOWS NO MERCY FOR STUNT; Two suspects jailed.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
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- February 1, 2007
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Byline: LAURA CRIMALDI and MICHELE McPHEE
A furious Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed yesterday to throw the book at the masterminds behind a guerrilla marketing campaign gone amok that plunged the city into bomb-scare pandemonium and blew nearly $1 million in police overtime and other costs.
As city and state attorneys laid groundwork for criminal charges and lawsuits, cops seized 27-year-old Arlington multimedia artist Peter Berdovsky, who posted film on his Web site boasting that he and friends planted the battery-wired devices that triggered the daylong panic. He was jailed overnight on charges of placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct.
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