He may have been planning to kill his wife, prosecutors said.
By Rachel Weiner Rachel Weiner Local reporter covering federal court in Alexandria, Va. and local court in Arlington and Alexandria. Email Bio Follow May 2 at 2:46 PM A former maintenance technician at Colonial Williamsburg was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for rigging a pipe bomb that exploded at the historic site.
Powers, 31, had built other bombs that were found in his home, according to records filed with the federal court in Newport News. “One possible and reasonable inference is that the defendant was testing a device that he would later use to murder his wife,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.
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