SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A San Antonio man was arrested for placing pipe bombs at two ATMs in September.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to court documents, Dustin Ammons was identified as the man who placed pipe bombs at two external ATMs at San Antonio banks on Sept. 12 and 26.<\/p>\n
Ammons tried to breach the machines with pipe bombs. Officials said PentaErythritolTetraNitrate (PETN) was found at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Dec. 12, a search warrant was executed at Ammons’ home. During the search, officials found a .40 caliber pistol in his closet. Agents also found parts and components of a destructive device, a pipe bomb, in his car. The car matched the description of the suspect’s car from the two September incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Supplies consistent with making PETN and other homemade explosives were found in Ammons’ garage as well.<\/p>\n
Ammons was previously convicted for possession of a stolen gun. He is now charged with one count of a felon in possession of a gun as well as one count of an unregistered destructive device.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n
The Source: Information from the United States Attorney\u2019s Office<\/p>\n
San Antonio<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A San Antonio man was arrested for placing pipe bombs at two ATMs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,1046,223,82,84,83,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-86271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bexar-county","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86271","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=86271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}