chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> I want to know who thought it was a fine idea that
> this guy should ever breathe free air again.
>
> From
"Rocket scientist or the next
> Unabomber?"
> By Tricia Bishop
> Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2009.
>
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimor
> e-city/bal-md.bomb17aug17-story.html
[R
> ]ecords also show him to be a boy who
> built 21 pipe bombs by the time he was
> 13, when he detonated one in his mother's
> Temple Hills apartment, perhaps practice for the
> Los Angeles federal complex his personal journal
> said he wanted to target, according to FBI records
> from 2000.
>
> Since then, he's declared social connections to
> the Bloods gang, spent time in at least three
> detention facilities and been arrested while
> carrying a "creditable WMD"
> recipe, according to the FBI.
>
> On Monday, Smith is expected to appear in
> Baltimore Circuit Court to answer charges that he
> possessed another working pipe bomb - No. 22 of
> his known explosives - while standing near the
> University of Maryland BioPark facility in
> Poppleton last summer.
And from about
> a week later...
>
>
8 Years For Pipe Bomb, Scuffle With
> Police
> By Tricia Bishop
> Baltimore Sun, August 18, 2009
>
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-08-18/news/0
> 908170074_1_smith-pipe-bomb-police-officer ote>In all,
it took four police officers
> to subdue the 140-pound, 5-foot-6-inch
> Smith, according to court records.
> Investigators found a pipe bomb in his knapsack
> along with a face mask, and pairs of leather and
> latex gloves.
>
> FBI records show
Smith detonated a pipe
> bomb at his mother's home in Prince George's
> County when he was 13; investigators found another
> 20 such explosives at the time and a
> journal that said Smith planned to target a
> federal complex in California.
Lock him back up