BOMBING SUSPECT PLEADS NO CONTEST.Byline: Janet Janet: see Clouet, Jean. JANET - Joint Academic NETwork Gilmore Daily News Staff Writer A 28-year-old Lancaster man pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges stemming from a failed effort to blow up a Reseda woman's car in September. Under a plea agreement with the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's Office, Ronnie Powers will be sentenced to four years, eight months in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for May 7 in Los Angeles Municipal Court. Authorities contend Powers put plastic explosives plastic explosive n. A versatile explosive substance in the form of a moldable doughlike solid, used in bombs detonated by fuse or electrical impulse. Also called plastique. under a car parked in a woman's driveway Sept. 29, but the fuse did not ignite. The woman brought the bomb to police. Prosecutors initially charged him with four felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. counts of use or possession of destructive devices A destructive device is a firearm or explosive device that, in the United States, is regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. Examples of destructive devices are grenades, and firearms with a bore over one half of an inch, including some semi-automatic shotguns. or ingredients used to make explosives. However, Powers pleaded guilty to just two of those charges and accepted the four-year sentence. When Powers was arrested in December, police said they found military explosives and blasting caps Noun 1. blasting cap - a small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives detonating device, detonator, cap - a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a at a Lancaster home. Exactly why Powers was trying to blow up the car was not clear. Powers' attorney and the prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. on the case could not be reached for comment. At least some of those devices were found at the Lancaster home of Peter Fullman, 37, who also pleaded guilty Wednesday to an explosives possession charge and a fraud charge. Fullman is scheduled to be sentenced next month to two years in prison, under the terms of his plea agreement. Fullman's attorney, Jeff Weiss, said the investigation into the attempted car bombing led officials to Fullman's home, where they found blasting caps in his back yard. Fullman has always maintained that the devices were not his, but his attorney said the plea offer was too good to pass up. Fullman said his client faced up to 15 years in prison on the explosives charge and several other charges that he attempted to buy vehicles with bad checks. ``Two years, versus 15 years,'' Weiss said. ``I thought it (the plea) was in my client's best interest.'' |
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