Posted on 08/21/2017 10:36:16 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
A Houston man has been charged with trying to plant explosives at the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Hermann Park, federal officials said Monday.
Andrew Schneck, 25, who was released from probation early last year after being convicted in 2015 of storing explosives, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said in a statement Monday.
Schneck was arrested Saturday night after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in bushes in front of the Dowling monument in the park, Martinez said.
Schneck was holding two small boxes that included duct tape and wires.
When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out, officials said.
Federal authorities said one of the tubes contained nitgroglycerin and hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, HMTD, a "highly explosive compound" used as a primary explosive. Nitroclycerin, in its purest form, is a contact explosive.
"ln its undiluted form, [nitroglycerin] is one of the world's most powerful explosives," according to the statement.
Schneck was arrested about 11 p.m. Saturday in the park, a source said, following a day of protests that drew hundreds of people to Sam Houston Park protesting a Spirit of the Confederacy statue. The Saturday event also drew counter-protesters.
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He went full ISIS.
Never go full ISIS.
“When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out”
This guy needs a psych eval.
GW Bush, McCain, Obama and Romney are responsible for all of this. We weren’t blowing up monuments in the 90s.
Domestic terrorist.
25-30 years seems about right.
comes from a wealthy lib family near Rice University-LIBERALISM is a mental disorder
By Noon tomorrow he’ll be identified as a Trump supporter.
exactly, and what is the betting obama is behind all of this crap whilst the media are pushing this as much as they can to cause unrest in the country to undermine Trump
Andrew Schneck...
A Germanic name...finally a suspect who could actually be Amish.
Liberal tolerance ping!
He was just trying to blow up statues that....ah it’s getting too complicated.
You are correct - remember, there wasn’t nearly as much identity theft back then either.
He went FULL RETARD..................
Any connetion with this from 4 year ago? A relative maybe?
“Houston terrorism probe extends to a Texas college: FBI agents descend on a dorm” owned by Andrew Schneck. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/10-08-13-houston-terrorism-probe-extends-to-a-texas-college-fbi-agents-descend-on-a-dorm/#slide=0
He's f'ing crazy.
There's your psych eval.
If such is the case then he probably won't spend much time in the can..
In our new Mexican style justice system... you pay the bite, your out by night...
Too bad he didn’t drink the nitro ... would have saved us the trouble of incarcerating him.
The Left will hail him as a national hero........................
25 years old and still a 10 year old boy.
Geez, what has happened to us?
From where does someone obtain such a liquid?
Surely not the local hobby lobby.
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