{"id":200990,"date":"2026-03-02T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:05:02","slug":"oc-family-speaks-out-after-fbi-probe-into-17-year-olds-home-lab-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200990\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Family Speaks Out After FBI Probe Into 17-Year-Old&#8217;s Home Lab: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, CA \u2014 The family of a 17-year-old boy who is the subject of a federal hazardous materials investigation at an Irvine home spoke out this week in defense of their son, The Orange County Register reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are afraid of what they don&#8217;t understand,&#8221; the family&#8217;s lawyer, Charles M. Ray, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/02\/28\/teenager-in-irvine-hazmat-probe-poses-no-threat-family-lawyer-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the newspaper Saturday.<\/a> &#8220;This is someone who is going to help cure cancer one day. He is not a terrorist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ray described the equipment at the home-based laboratory as materials that would be &#8220;found in a sixth-grade lab,&#8221; such as Bunsen burners and other materials, the newspaper said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The specific substances involved, along with the surrounding circumstances, are being carefully and methodically evaluated by subject matter experts from multiple disciplines,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>No nearby residents were evacuated as a result of the investigation and no arrests were immediately made, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, CA \u2014 The family of a 17-year-old boy who is the subject of a federal hazardous materials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-200990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}