Crime Time

More charges filed against would-be Killeen bomber

A federal grand jury in Waco indicted Naser Jason Abdo on additional charges in connection with an alleged plot for an explosives attack near the U.S. Army base in Killeen, federal prosecutors said. The 21-year-old now faces six additional counts, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder of officers or employees of the United States. The indictment accuses Pfc. Abdo, an AWOL soldier, of planning a July 27 attack where he would detonate explosives inside the restaurant, which was frequent by soldier from Fort Hood. He planned to shoot any survivors, according to news reports.  He faces up to life in prison.

Bomb blast kills police coming to aid fallen comrade in Juarez

It was a scene more like one from a war zone in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it was a street in downtown Juarez, Mexico, where on Thursday night narco-traffickers apparently set off a bomb -- possibly a grenade or car bomb -- that killed at least one police officer.

The bomb exploded as Mexican federal police officers and rescuers were going to the aid of a police officer who had been shot, the El Paso Times reported.

It is reported that the attack was the Juarez cartel's response to the recent arrest of one its top leaders.

The newspaper reported that it is unclear how many were actually killed or injured in the initial shooting and subsequent bomb blast. But, the Times reported that seven people were known to be injured, including a cameraman for television station KINT in El Paso.

The Times' website includes a graphic video shot by a KINT cameraman.

The use of explosives by cartels against police is unprecedented in Mexico, but was earlier used by Colombian cartels, the Times reported.

-- Lance Murray

Boom! Exploding candy box injures woman

An exploding candy box has injured a Houston woman, the Associated Press reported.

The explosion happened Friday at the 56-year-old woman's house when she opened a candy box that he had received weeks ago.  The explosion sprayed the woman with nails and tacks, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.

The BATF said they don't know the motive for the attack, but that the woman was the target.

She's recovering at home after surgery to repair her injured left hand, the AP reported.

-- Lance Murray

Paper: Arrest made in East Texas pipe bomb case

The Tyler Telegraph is reporting that an arrest has been made in case of pipe bombs and Molotov-style incendiary devices that were discovered around East Texas in the past two months.

According to the reports, the man uses a wheelchair.

The paper reported about 30 devices had been found in the past couple months, with the most recent discovery of a device shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday in Tyler.

-- Lance Murray

Doctor loses eye when car bomb critically injures him

Dr. Trent P. Pierce, the West Memphis, Ark., physician critically injured Wednesday when a bomb blew up his Lexus hybrid has lost an eye in the attack, according to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

Pierce is the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, the body that licenses and disciplines physicians in that state.

Some type of explosive device went off as Pierce was leaving his home in West Memphis. Local and federal investigators are searching for who might have done it.

"We don't know if this was a random target or someone specifically targeted him," West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert said. It's unclear if the doctor was inside or outside his car when the bomb went off, Paubert said.

-- Lance Murray

Car bomb critically injures head of Arkansas medical board

It appears somebody tried to blow up the head of the Arkansas State Medical Board on Wednesday.

Dr. Trent P. Pierce, a family practitioner in West Memphis, Ark., was critically injured when his SUV exploded as he was preparing to leave his home for work.

West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert said that "some type of explosive device" was placed in the vehicle.

Pierce heads the board that licenses and disciplines doctors in Arkansas.

-- Lance Murray

Suspect arrested in bank bombing that killed 2 officers

An arrest has been made in last week's fatal bank bombing in Oregon.

The explosion Friday evening at the West Coast Bank in Woodburn killed a police captian and an Oregon state trooper. Both men were bomb squad technicians.

Police said the suspect was arrested in the Salem area.

According to a sheriff's department news release, the identity of the suspect and other details were not released, "to protect the integrity of the investigation and the safety of officers continuing to investigate this crime."

-- Lance Murray

Bomb damages Times Square military recruiting station

A bomb blast damaged an empty military recruiting station in New York City's Times Square early Thursday morning.

Nobody was at work when the bomb went off at 3:45 a.m., police said, but the blast shook guests at nearby hotels.

"If it is something that's directed toward American troops than it's something that's taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate," said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan.

The recruiting station housed Army, Marine, Air Force and Navy recruiters.

-- Lance Murray

-- Associated Press Photo

Bomb blast outside Sopranos actor's theater 'a message'

First actor Michael Imperioli's television character, Christopher Moltisanti, gets snuffed out by Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. Then in real life, someone exploded a homemade bomb Tuesday outside a New York City theater, Studio Dante, owned by Imperioli. The New York Post reports that police believe someone was trying to send Imperioli or his family a message.

-- Lance Murray

-- Star-Telegram file photo of Michael Imperioli inside Studio Dante.