Four local teens arrested for making homemade bombs and throwing them at neighbors near Geo-Jes subdivision: Four local teens accused of spending their Friday night building small bombs using a few household items, including aluminum foil and Gatorade bottles and then tossing them at people and houses, have been arrested. East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies on Saturday booked Blaine Burkett, 17, 16228 Chevernt Ave., Greenwell Springs, into Parish Prison on three counts of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles and counts of manufacturing and possessing a bomb, prison records show. The three minors, whose names were not released, were each booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Detention Center on counts of manufacturing and possessing a bomb, sheriff’s spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said. The Sheriff’s Office did not say where or how the four learned how to make the bombs. According to an affidavit of probable cause, which is Burkett’s arrest document, this is what happened: Burkett told deputies that he and the others were playing “ding-dong-ditch” — a game in which a person knocks on someone’s door, then runs — when the three minors decided to go to a nearby store to buy supplies to build a “homemade explosive device.” One minor, identified only as “GA,” bought Reynolds aluminum foil and Gatorade, while another, identified as “TM,” bought household cleaners and eggs. The three jumped into Burkett’s vehicle and built the bombs. They drove to an unidentified BREC park and built and exploded two test devices. They wanted to make sure the various chemicals reacted properly with each other and would explode. Then they built and exploded two more at the park before egging several parked cars at the park and building two more bombs. Advertisement:Replay Ad “The second set of bombs were thrown at a group of people at their residence (unknown address) while they sat around a fire in the back yard,” the arrest document says. Burkett told deputies that he and “GA” threw those bombs at the people. After that, the quartet drove back to Burkett’s home and switched to a silver SUV for one more bombing run. They drove to a house near Burkett’s about 1:15 a.m. and knocked loudly on the windows. The homeowner said that, when they knocked on the windows a second time a short while later, he saw two boys running toward a silver sport utility vehicle. About 2:30 a.m., the homeowner, still watching for the teens, said he saw the SUV slowly pull up to his home, a boy get out and throw something about 15 feet toward the home. A few seconds later, the object exploded, and the homeowner saw “debris fly up in the air,” the arrest documents says. Deputies found “the remains of a plastic bottle, burned aluminum foil, and some type of chemical on the ground at the victim’s residence,” one of them wrote in the document. The homeowner watched the teens drive to Burkett’s house and pointed investigators in that direction. When deputies arrived at the home, they found the bomb-making materials items in plain sight in the silver SUV. Burkett admitted making the bombs, and said two of the minors, “GA” and “BG,” helped make them and toss them.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:05:03 +0000
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