{"id":420169,"date":"2026-08-29T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:46:23","slug":"san-antonio-felon-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-atm-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420169\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio felon sentenced to federal prison for ATM bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788000383_264_GettyImages-509557490-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"San Antonio felon sentenced to federal prison for ATM bombings\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJudge gavel, scales of justice and law books in court.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0A San Antonio felon was sentenced to 140 months in federal prison for trying to blow up two ATMs and illegally possessing firearms and explosives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Dustin Jay Ammons, 44, planted pipe bombs at two San Antonio banks in September 2025, but both explosions failed to breach the ATMs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A federal search of his home later uncovered a homemade explosives lab containing PETN, multiple firearms, ammunition and another pipe bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Ammons pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm and transporting explosives. The sentences will run concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge gavel, scales of justice and law books in court. SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0A San Antonio felon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46118,146340,12513,146341,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-420169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-atm","tag-dustin-jay-ammons","tag-federal-prison","tag-pipe-bombs","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\/420169","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=420169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}