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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The stuff’s found in nearly everything these days, and people just don’t seem to care.
germanic
Not exactly
Schneck Family History. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): affectionate nickname for a slow person or for a slow or indolent worker, from Middle High German snecke, German Schneck(e), Yiddish shnek ‘snail’.
probably the same guy
“The background behind raids conducted on Oct. 4, 2013, in two states and the evacuation of several blocks of Suttons Bay Village may never be known as a federal judge has sealed documents that would explain the operations”
seems it’s time to have those documents unsealed.
see my post 33
closer than you think.
he was the subject of a terrorist plot.
Federal judge sealed the records.
That man deserves a pat on the back! A hard pat on the back!
> Would YOU support a ban on Dihydromonoxide? <
Yes, but then you’d probably just say I’m all wet.
Sealed the records?
Maybe he flipped and worked for “us” a bit to get out of the charges.
The feds seem to have a short leash on a number of crazies they activate when needed.
Too expensive for the taxpayers. Isn’t there some cheaper and quicker more final solution?
No photo of the punk?
I believe he is on the side of those who carry signs saying not to hate? Love trumps hate?
Force him to sit though a Rosie O’Donnell film festival?
Well, there is the Geneva Convention.
Typical LIB DIM nobama and hillary voter. Typical.
No...”Ol Sparky” should be just about right.
and he’d fit right in with a certain freeper crowd that are consumed with hate for anything Confederate.
HMTD is made out of hydrogen peroxide, solid camping fuel and a preservative that you can buy in the baking aisle at your grocery. Nitro is made from a couple of concentrated acids and some glycerin. The recipes are easy enough to find, the concentrated acid probably a little tougher.
The good part is that amateur bomb makers often blow themselves up first before they can harm someone else.
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