The two attorneys representing Jason Duhaime, a former Northeastern employee who allegedly staged a package explosion in Holmes Hall in September 2022, have dropped the defendant as their client, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Rachel Stroup and Thomas Miller, the two criminal defense lawyers representing Duhaime for the Boston-based law firm Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein, withdrew their representation Jan. 23 due to “a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship, such that continued representation would not be possible.”

In the separately filed motions to withdraw, both Stroup and Miller stated that Duhaime wishes to take his case to trial but has not paid his agreed-upon fees for representation. It is unclear who will take up his case. 

Duhaime, the 45-year-old former director of Northeastern’s Immersive Media Lab, is currently facing charges for falsely reporting to police in September 2022 that a Pelican-style case containing “sharp” objects and a threatening note raving about artificial intelligence had exploded and injured him. 

The reported explosion prompted the evacuation of several buildings near Holmes Hall and a days-long FBI investigation which eventually led to the arrest of Duhaime in October 2022. He was charged with one count of conveying false information and hoaxes related to an explosive device and one count of making material false and fictitious statements in a matter within an executive branch of the U.S. government.

Duhaime appeared in Boston federal court Tuesday with his next day in court scheduled in February.