NJ train explosives: A New Jersey man was charged with having explosives at his home and on a train just a few days before the Boston Marathon bombings took place. However, authorities said there is no evidence he was trying to detonate them.
Mykyta Panasenko, 27, of Jersey City, was charged on the day of the marathon bombing and the next day, he was charged with having explosives on a train, officials told NJ.com.
Authorities said that they were not “completed explosive devices.” Specifically, he was charged with having “two destructive devices, specifically improvised explosive devices constructed from a cylinder containing Pyrodex (black powder).”
Panasenko was also charged with creating widespread risk of injury by building the improvised devices and having the material on a train earlier this month.
The New York Daily News reported that he detonated some of the devices for fun in the town of Suffern, N.J.
“There is no indication at this point of the investigation that he intended to detonate a device in his building or on the transit system,” Jersey City Police said in a statement, according to PIX-11.
