Dugan, who moved from Wichita, Kan. to Austin, Texas several years ago, began turning heads in the BMX scene over the past two years with interviews in Ride UK BMX Magazine, a bio in issue 72 of Props Video Magazine and various Web edits from Odyssey, etnies footwear, and ESPN. In 2009, Joe Rich added Dugan to the Terrible One team, and more recently, Dugan was added to the Empire BMX team, along with etnies and Odyssey flow. Because of the increased exposure Dugan was receiving, he began traveling more this year, including trips to the UK for the 20 Twenty Jam and more. This meant more time lounging around in airports for the 22-year-old Austin transplant.

Dugan continues: "I'm in the airport, and I can't remember what brought it up exactly, but someone Tweeted something along the lines of "We shouldn't talk about blowing up things on Twitter." I replied, "Are you kidding me?" I was being sarcastic, and added "Imma blow up the Pentagon y'all, yee-haw!" I said it real hick, and right after that, I typed, "And I'm going to blow up the White House" and "I'm gonna blow up this plane I'm on" and "I'm gonna blow up my own house." But I was just messing around, saying stupid things, and didn't think anything of it," he says.

Dugan and his friends on Twitter shared a laugh before Dugan boarded the plane to return to Austin.

For the next few weeks, Dugan thought nothing of the incident. "I just went on with my life," he says. But that changed when both the Secret Service and FBI paid a visit to Dugan's parent's home in Wichita.

"I get a call from my mom while I'm on a trip in Utah. It was early in the morning, and she left a voicemail, saying that it was an emergency. I called her, and she says, "The Secret Service and the FBI just ran up on us, rushed the house looking for you." This was a few weeks ago, and the date that I left that Tweet was sometime in late June, so it took them a couple of months to respond," says Dugan. "I called the Secret Service and set up an appointment to meet them at my parent's house in Kansas," he added.

Dugan returned from Utah and drove back to Wichita for the appointment.

"When I went home to Kansas, the Secret Service were able to meet me at my parent's house. Two agents came to do the questioning, and somehow, they knew that I rode BMX, but they thought that I was really 'professional' at it. I didn't bring up anything. All I did was answer the questions: yes or no. They were telling me how much this could hurt my chances of getting sponsored, or hurt my current sponsorships. It took about 45 minutes of ridiculous questions, asking if I was in any radical organizations or anything like that," he says.

Towards the end of the interview, the agents warned Dugan against making any further threats to the United States, stating that he could be incarcerated for the offense. Dugan took the advice to heart. "I won't make anything up on Twitter from now on. And hopefully, the FBI is wrong about my losing my sponsorships," he says.

The general consensus among Dugan's sponsors is that his position on their respective teams is safe. "Tom Dugan's status on the Empire pro team is safe. If anything, this situation illustrates the ridiculous waste of manpower and resources that is commonplace in our government. Anyone with an IQ higher than Oliver the humanzee could take a 15-second jaunt on Google and see that Tom is harmless to national security," said Empire BMX owner Tom Williams.

"Do they think he can air high enough to take down an airliner or pedal fast enough to create a tsunami off the coast of Louisiana?," he added.

Courtesy of T-1Dugan airing a Colorado park on T-1's most recent Freaky Friday e-mailer.