Grand jury returns indictment against man accused in East Chicago pipe bomb explosion
Source: Chicago Tribune
A Munster man accused of sending a pipe bomb and threatening note with a bullet to victims is facing additional charges after a grand jury returned an indictment, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Indiana announced Thursday.
Eric Krieg, 45, was arrested last month after an FBI investigation following a pipe bomb explosion Sept. 6 at the East Chicago post office on Chicago Avenue.
Krieg faces five charges, according to the indictment, including making an unregistered destructive device; mailing a destructive device; malicious use of explosive materials; possessing a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence; and mailing a threatening communication.
The indictment lists three victims in Krieg's federal case — an attorney who represented a client in a 2013 lawsuit against Krieg, a postal worker injured in the September explosion, and a person who received a threatening note from Krieg, also in September.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/crime/ct-ptb-eric-krieg-pipe-bomb-indictment-st-1110-20171109-story.html
This is a right-winger who has unsuccessfully tried to run for local offices. His terrorist actions are a result of online forum comments that he took exception to and a slander lawsuit he lost.
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