p2pnet - rss feed: Bruce Forest on bomb charge
p2p news / p2pnet: Police are expected to today charge Bruce Forest, an “elder statesman” in the piracy scene,” for allegedly using an AR-15 to explode a homemade bomb outside the disused Fitch school in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Law enforcement officers had already obtained an arrest warrant for Forest, 49, on separate bomb and weapons charges in near-byWeston, “where police arrested him Friday night for allegedly trying to blow up an abandoned service station,” says the Stamford Advocate.
He’d allegedly positioned his one-pound homemade bomb at the school’s front door, “returned to his silver 2004 BMW - parked in a driveway about 120 feet away - and, from inside the car, detonated the bomb by firing a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle into it, officials said,” according to the story.
“The explosion, which occurred at about 4 p.m. as children and teenagers played on a nearby basketball court and playground, pushed the building’s front metal door 2 feet inside and shattered windows, officials said.”
Witnesses in the adjacent Fitch Park described Forest’s BMW, officials said, states the Stamford Advocate.
“Weston police, already looking for his car, stopped him at 11 p.m. Friday, officials said. Forest was being held on $2 million bond after being arraigned yesterday in the Weston explosion, and today’s charges will carry an additional $1 million bond, officials said.”
Police seized the rifle, “along with a cache of weapons in Forest’s residence on Route 57,” says the story, adding:
“When police asked Forest why he selected a building beside a park on a busy street, Forest said he knew no one would get hurt, officials said,” but, ” Homeless people have found shelter in the abandoned building”.
Forest says he’s a piracy consultant and, “Basically, I’m a double agent. Though I don’t fink anyone out. I’m not a cop.”
Also See:
Stamford Advocate - More charges are expected in Norwalk today March 28, 2006
piracy consultant - The Scene conspiracy, July 13, 2005
