With Today's Forensics, You Have To Be a Modern-Day Moriarty

 Case-in-point: an explosion at Northeastern University was possible caused by it's only victim:

A Texas man has been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a false claim about an explosion at a virtual reality lab at Northeastern University in Boston last month.

The alleged hoax triggered a massive response from law enforcement, including Boston Police and FBI bomb squads, and it forced the evacuation of a large part of the campus. But authorities say the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by 45-year-old Jason Duhaime, who worked at the lab.

Duhaime, who was then the new technology manager and director of the

Immersive Media Lab at Northeastern University, allegedly called 911 on Sept. 13 to report that a package had blown up in the lab and injured him.

He repeated the story to investigators, according to the affidavit, saying that he opened a hard plastic case that came in the mail, and "all this energy, and like these things come flying out."

But authorities say there were no signs of an explosion and his injuries were suspicious. Later, investigators say they discovered that a copy of a letter Duhaime said came with the bomb had been created on his own computer earlier that day.

"Mr. Duhaime wanted to be the victim, but instead victimized his entire community by instilling fear at college campuses in Massachusetts and beyond," said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division.

Duhaime, who denied staging the explosion when questioned by authorities, was arrested without incident in San Antonio, Texas, and is being charged with one federal count of conveying false information and hoaxes related to an explosive device, and one count of making materially false statements to a federal law enforcement agent.