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FBI: US Pipe Bomb Suspect Confesses


VOA News
8 May 2002 19:03 UTC
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<b>Luke John Helder is arrested by police</b>
Luke John Helder is arrested by police
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says accused mailbox bomber Luke Helder has admitted his guilt.
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 HelderThe FBI says 21-year-old college student has confessed to planting 18 pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across the U.S. Midwest that injured six people. FBI documents filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Nevada say Mr. Helder has admitted his guilt both to the agency and separately to his father.

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 Checking for pipe bombsThe FBI affidavit said Mr. Helder described the places where he placed the crude explosive devices in the U.S. states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas. He also admitted to making 16 more pipe bombs in a room at a Nebraska motel near Omaha.

 Mr. Helder is set to be arraigned on the first of a series of criminal charges related to the pipe bomb attacks.

 Federal prosecutors in Iowa have already filed criminal charges against Mr. Helder in connection with a bomb explosion that injured a woman there Friday.

 The college art student was arrested outside of Reno, Nevada Tuesday - just hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a nationwide alert identifying him as the chief suspect. Threatening anti-government letters accompanied all of the pipe bombs.
 
 

Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters. 

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