For anyone who doesn’t know, I worked 29 years in public education in non-teaching positions. Those years are forever imprinted in my memory. I’m drawn to crimes involving school employees or students. This true crime involved both.
A high school campus security person had a side-hustle of selling homemade explosives and explosive components through social media connections. His co-conspirator was a student in the same town where he worked. The student fulfilled orders and shipped the explosives through the mail.
When the FBI learned of the business, they questioned the security person who denied knowing anything about explosives.
Post office staff at one of the destination post offices intercepted a package that the duo had shipped. In the indictment, it included,
“The explosives contained in the package intercepted by the [named] post office posed a risk of serious bodily injury or death.”
The FBI executed a search warrant at both the employee’s and student’s homes. At the employee’s home, they seized over 500 pounds of uncontained explosives and explosive materials. At the student’s home, they seized over 400 pounds of the same.
The student, a juvenile, told the authorities the employee taught him about explosives.
Shortly after his arrest, the former school employee pleaded guilty to:
Conspiring to engage in manufacturing and dealing in explosive materials
Mailing explosive devices
Making false statements to the FBI
After his confession, a judge sentenced the 27-year-old to two years in prison.
Currently, the juvenile’s consequences are sealed.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, The Bakersfield Californian
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