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Ex-teacher accused of making bomb, using students for help

Toby Lambert, February 16, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — A former high school teacher was accused on Thursday of paying students to dismantle fireworks for gunpowder so he could eventually make a bomb and was ordered held without bail.

Christian Toro was charged in a federal complaint with offenses including unlawfully making an explosive. His brother, Tyler Toro, also was arrested in the case. There was no immediate response to requests for comment from their attorneys.

The complaint said the case grew out of a bomb threat called into a school by a student in December. It said Christian Toro then resigned, Tyler Toro returned the ex-teacher’s school laptop and a technician found a document about explosives on it.

Authorities interviewed Christian Toro at his Bronx apartment earlier this month.

Christian Toro told law enforcement agents that he’d come across the document about explosives while researching the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, looked only at its contents and never meant to download it, the complaint said. He said he’d never built a bomb.

But on Wednesday, students at his former school told agents that he paid at least two students about $50 an hour between October and January to break up fireworks and store the powder from them, said the complaint, which didn’t say what the purpose of the bomb was.

Agents got a warrant and searched the Toros’ apartment on Thursday, finding more than 30 pounds (14 kilograms) of various chemicals used in explosives, a box of firecrackers, a bag of metal spheres that could be used to pack a bomb with damaging projectiles and a diary, the complaint said.

The diary, with Tyler Toro’s name in it, said “Christian arrested” and “If you’re registered as a sex offender, things will be difficult. But I am here 100 percent, living, buying weapons. Whatever we need,” according to the complaint.

The diary also talked about having thrown away all the evidence of something code-named operation “Flash,” proclaimed “we are the twin Toros” and threatened retribution if anyone would “strike us now,” authorities said. It added, “I hope this doesn’t turn into a scene from Goodfellas,” they said.

“Goodfellas,” a 1990 Martin Scorsese movie starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci, chronicles a mobster-turned-informant.

The complaint said agents searching the apartment also found a yellow backpack, which contained a purple index card with handwriting that said “under the full moon the small ones will know terror.”

The complaint said Christian Toro was arrested Jan. 31 on a charge of raping someone under age 17; it’s a felony rape in New York for someone over age 20 to have sex with someone under age 17. No details of that case could be found Thursday night in online court records.

 

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