Cell phone image. Maplewood pipe bombs, one ready to go. Image: U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
What can happen if you forget your cell phone
MINNEAPOLIS – A suburban man who wrapped BB-gun pellets around an explosive – creating a pipe bomb – was sentenced to prison for 2-1/2 years. Dylan Raymond Orr, 27, had pleaded guilty. Federal Judge Nancy Brasel issued the sentence, plus three years supervised probation. Federal discovered two bombs at Orr’s house after he mistakenly left his cell phone behind at Rick’s Cabaret strip club in Minneapolis last April. To find the phone’s owner, a Rick’s employee flipped through messages and ran across blueprints for building pipe bombs. The employee called police. At Orr’s house in Maplewood, federal agents found two six-inch pipes, including one with the BBs wrapped around a pipe with cellophane. Also found were four blasting caps and the explosive powder nitroglycerin and nitrate.
Strip club find. Employee first intended to return phone, then discovered scary images.