A San Antonio man accused of placing pipe bombs at two local ATMs has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, federal officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n
Dustin Jay Ammons, 44, pleaded guilty in April to one count of felon in possession of a firearm and one count of explosive materials, transport by non-licensee, according to court records.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez on Tuesday sentenced Ammons to 11 years and 8 months in federal prison for the felon in possession charge and to 10 years for the explosives charge. The sentences will be served at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ammons has a lengthy criminal history, with earlier convictions on charges of assault\/family violence, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of burglary tools, and multiple counts of theft and burglary, according to Bexar County court records.<\/p>\n
Ammons tried to destroy ATMs at two San Antonio banks this past September, according to a federal criminal complaint. Video from surveillance cameras showed\u00a0Ammons arriving at the banks in a black Ram 3500 pickup. He wore black gloves with a skeleton hand design, a black hooded jacket or sweatshirt dark blue pants and black and white training shoes.<\/p>\n
The videos showed\u00a0Ammons placing pipe bombs at the ATMs, followed by\u00a0explosions, according to federal officials.<\/p>\n
Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a search warrant at Ammons’ home and found a homemade explosives laboratory that included pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive material. Agents also found guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, along with a pipe bomb in his vehicle, according to federal officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio man accused of placing pipe bombs at two local ATMs has been sentenced to more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-418498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}