Man Charged In Detonation of ‘Drano bomb’ on City Bus
October 19, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Police have charged a 22-year-old Baltimore man, Alan Weeks, in connection with the detonation of a homemade ‘Drano’ bomb on a city bus earlier this month, according to reports.
Weeks turned himself in Saturday after television stations broadcast closed-circuit surveillance footage of two men who were on the bus moments before the bomb went off, according to charging documents. Weeks said he was one of the men but denied any involvement in the incident. He has been charged with conspiracy to manufacture, possess or distribute a destructive device and related charges.
8 Children Burned In Homemade Acid-Bomb Attack
June 23, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Two children suffered serious burns and six others were injured after someone threw a bottle containing dangerous chemicals at them while they played outside over the weekend in Brooklyn.
The incident happened about 8 p.m. on Sunday at S. 8th Street in the Williamsburg section of the borough. One of the victims, 10-year-old Yaakov Frankel, along with several witnesses told police that someone ran out of a building across the street from the courtyard where children were playing and tossed the homemade device at them. An explosion that released some sort of Drano-type mix got into the eyes of Frankel and a 12-year-old girl, causing them to be hospitalized. Six other children suffered burns and were treated at the scene.
“They were playing and all of a sudden a bottle came in with liquid, and it spins around and exploded into their eyes and [onto] the clothes of the kids,” said.
