By DAVID WARREN, REESE DUNKLIN and SHAWN CHEN, Associated Press The man suspected of planting four bombs in the Texas capital this month that killed two people and injured four others was an unemployed college dropout who doesn’t appear to have left much of a trail online aside from some 2012 blog posts about a range …
“We are not 100 percent convinced there’s not other devices out there.”
By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators pursuing a suspected serial bomber in the Texas capital shifted their attention Tuesday to a FedEx shipping center near San Antonio where a package exploded on a conveyor belt in the middle of the night and caused minor injuries to a worker. …
A Fort Pierce, Florida, man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly blowing up a neighbor’s backyard to kill their chickens. TC Palm reported that Scott Frederick Wegener, 55, was arrested after someone warned police that Wegener had detonated a bomb made in a whiskey bottle and was threatening to do it again. The caller supposedly claimed that …
The chief said all of the victims have been black and that investigators are considering whether race could have factored into the attacks.
NEW YORK (AP) — A former high school teacher was accused on Thursday of paying students to dismantle fireworks for gunpowder so he could eventually make a bomb and was ordered held without bail. Christian Toro was charged in a federal complaint with offenses including unlawfully making an explosive. His brother, Tyler Toro, also was …
Authorities apprehended a Texas woman who allegedly sent homemade bombs to former President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott when cat hairs found on a device matched a cat she owned. According to The Guardian, legal documents filed in a Houston court this week laid out police’s case against Julia Poff, 46, who’s accused of …
A North Carolina air traffic controller was arrested, along with his roommate, for alleged possession of a weapon of mass destruction. According to the New York Post, Paul George Dandan, 30, was arrested Friday in Charlotte. WCNC reported that the investigation began November 3 when authorities received a report of an individual in possession of …
A Texas man was arrested Saturday for reportedly attempting to strap explosives onto a Confederate monument in a Houston park. The suspect, Andrew Schneck, 25, was released from probation last year following a 2015 conviction for storing explosives, Acting US Attorney Abe Martinez revealed in Monday’s statement. Schneck was arrested after allegedly being caught kneeling in front of …
An Albuquerque man was arrested this week for allegedly placing a homemade bomb under his ex-girlfriend’s bed while she attended her graduation ceremony. The Albuquerque Journal reported that Ethan Guillen, 18, allegedly placed the pressure cooker under the bed two weeks ago but it was discovered Wednesday afternoon. The device was never detonated. Court documents obtained by …
