Feds charge Kansas teenager for buying explosive on dark web
April 20, 2017
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Kansas teenager who used bitcoin to buy a grenade on the dark web.
A criminal information filed Wednesday charges Carlos Francisco Martin of Coffeyville with receiving an explosive meant to destroy property.
Defense attorney Steven Gradert says his client is just "kind of a dumb 18-year-old kid" who wanted to blow up a truck as revenge because someone had damaged his mom's car.
He says his client plans to plead guilty.
Gradert says the purchase initially drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's terrorism task force beca...
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