A 42-year-old man from Holliston, Mass., was arrested Tuesday after threatening to blow up a Los Angeles airport in a hand-written letter; he had previously sent numerous letters and packages to actress Jodie Foster.

Michael Smegal, 42, was arrested in Massachusetts on Tuesday and charged with mailing a bomb threat, Christina DiIorio-Sterling, spokeswoman for US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, was quoted as saying by the Boston Globe.

Smegal had sent a hand-written letter to Van Nuys Airport and other local airports containing bomb threats, as well as references to Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster. Federal prosecutors said it was very similar to about 100 other letters mailed to people in the Los Angeles area since September 2007.

According to an affidavit by Boston FBI agent Joseph H. Altman, the letter that led to Smegal’s arrest yesterday had been addressed to Van Nuys Airport on Dec. 6; a single sheet of paper was found in the envelope which bore no return address, with the hand-written message “Jodie Foster S” and “going to be a gas bomb this building,” the Globe reports.

Smegal sent anonymous letter and packages to Foster beginning with fall 2004, the paper reports; he promised to stop in August of the following year.

The FBI said Smegal confessed he sent the letters to airports because he believed the Screen Actors Guild had offices there; he was upset with the guild because he felt the union had made disparaging remarks about Foster.

DiIorio-Sterling added that Smegal has been released on an unsecured $10,000 bond to remain with his parents, with whom he lives. The charge against him carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, she said.

Jodie Foster has been the target of mad stalkers before. John Hinckley Jr. obsessed over the actress for years before attempting to assassinate President Ronald Regan, on March 29, 1981, as a way of impressing Foster.