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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Fun and games with spent tear gas canisters...
2020-06-06
[TribLIVE] A Pittsburgh man has been charged with a federal crime after police said he placed a backpack containing several homemade bombs in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 31.

U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady announced Saturday that Matthew Michanowicz, 52, of the city’s Duquesne Heights neighborhood, was charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device. He was arrested Friday by Allegheny County sheriffs.

Pittsburgh police responded Monday morning to an open area at 2 PNC Plaza where PNC security personnel reported seeing a "military, green backpack" by a bicycle rack.

The police’s bomb squad found what they referred to as three suspected "homemade Molotov cocktails," identified in arrest papers filed against Michanowicz as "spent OC vapor grenades," which contained a fluid that was leaking out of at least of the devices.
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Posted by:M. Murcek

#5  This loser grew up in a very affluent neighborhood in Pittsburgh as a child of a Doctor. He was born on third base and stole second base.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-06-06 17:15  

#4  Shouldn't be hard to backtrack to the "cookbook" he was using to come up with that stuff. I'm sure he didn't dream it up on his own.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-06 16:08  

#3  Beware the old man in a profession where people die young?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-06 15:57  

#2  52 is a little old to be Antifa. Longtime Communist, maybe?
Posted by: Frank G   2020-06-06 15:52  

#1  They got lucky — this Antifa idiot planned to much worse. From the article:

Authorities searched Michanowicz’s Republic Street home Thursday. They say it turned up a bundle of the same type of fuse as those on the bombs, a can of spray foam and a syringe containing a liquid whose odor was consistent with the bombs.

Investigators also allegedly found 10 more backpacks similar to the bag left Downtown.

If convicted, Michanowicz faces up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. A court date has not yet been set.

And now that they have him, tracking his connections should be informative.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-06-06 15:39  

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