Badges - NM police say father taught son to build bombs
- From: CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:44:13 -0500
LAS CRUCES, N.M. ? Investigators have provided
disturbing new details about the case of a father
accused of teaching his 6-year-old boy how to
build and blow up homemade bombs out of items
such as empty milk jugs and gunpowder.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives supervisor Brent Quinn said the
father's creations ? one of which was recovered
from his Las Cruces home Thursday and disarmed by
bomb squad robots ? were nothing short of "improvised explosive devices."
"Some people look at it as just making
'fireworks,'" he said. "Obviously, it isn't that simple."
Anthony Stromberg, a 44-year-old convicted felon,
allegedly built two types of bombs at his trailer
park home ? a pipe bomb made from gunpowder and
plastic tubing and another made from fuses, black putty and a milk jug.
The boy drew diagrams of the explosives for
detectives and explained how they were built. He
told police his father first took him to blow up
the devices during last year's Fourth of July holiday.
Stromberg would have his son stand away as they
were ignited, and the boy described the resulting
blasts as "feeling like a big wind blowing you over."
The Las Cruces Police Department's SWAT team,
state police, sheriff's deputies and ATF agents
raided Stromberg's home Thursday morning.
Authorities luckily arrested the father before
anyone was hurt ? homemade explosives can result
in lost fingers or worse, Quinn said.
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