New York: District attorney’s office staffer tried to make a bomb to blow up migrant shelter


A paralegal at a New York City district attorney’s office has been arrested after he attempted to make an explosive to bomb a migrant shelter located across from his apartment, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.

Police said Derek Klever, a 27-year-old who worked as a trial preparation assistant at the Queens District Attorney’s office, confided to an unnamed acquaintance that he had purchased fireworks and was going to combine their contents with nails, gasoline and other materials to create rudimentary explosives.

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Source: MSN News


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