David Dwayne Cassady, prisoner in Georgia.
Courtesy: Georgia Department of Corrections
A guy serving a life sentence for kidnapping and other criminal activities while in a Georgia jail constructed 2 bombs which he sent by mail to a District of Columbia office complex and the federal court house and structure in Anchorage, Alaska, district attorneys declare.
The implicated bomb maker, 55-year-old David Cassady, presumably put the 2 explosive gadgets into the mail at his jail in Tattnall County on Jan. 24, 2020, according to an indictment provided by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Statesboro, Georgia.
The bomb that went to Washington, D.C., was sent by mail to the Bond Building, whose workplace occupants consist of the Department of Justice.
The indictment declares Cassady made and sent out the bombs with the intent to “to maliciously harm or ruin, by ways of fire or dynamite, a structure in entire or in part owned or had by, or rented to, the United States,” and “developed considerable danger of injury to an individual.”
Neither bomb took off.
Cassady is charged with one count of making an unregistered harmful gadget, 2 counts of sending by mail a devastating gadget and 2 counts of tried harmful usage of a dynamite.
“Protecting our workers and centers is an essential function of our workplace and of our police partners,” stated U.S. Attorney Jill Steinberg, whose workplace is prosecuting Cassady. “We likewise will do something about it versus prisoners who look for to dedicate criminal activities and damage the general public from behind bars.”
Barry Paschal, a representative for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, decreased to comment when asked to describe the more than four-year lag in between Cassady supposedly sending by mail the bombs, and being charged in the case.
Paschal stated he might not talk about information of the case beyond those included in the indictment.
That charging file did not state how Cassady apparently made the bombs while secured in jail, the size of those gadgets, how he mailed them from jail, and why he picked the DOJ head office and the federal court house and structure in Anchorage as his targets.
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A spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Corrections stated, “Cassady had the ability to control mostly products he was licensed to have into makeshift explosive gadgets.”
“We value the assistance of our federal partners in making sure that justice will be served on this person for his function in endangering the safe operations of our centers, and most significantly, the security of the general public,” stated the spokesperson, Joan Heath.
Cassady has a long rap sheet dating to the late 1980s, when he was sentenced to jail for 3 years after convictions for 6 counts of first-degree forgery.
Corrections Department records reveal he started serving his newest stint in jail in 1993, after being founded guilty of kidnapping, intensified sodomy, impersonating an officer and unlawful imprisonment.
While in jail in Tattnal County, Cassady was founded guilty of criminal offenses in 2019 consisting of terroristic dangers and acts, incorrect declarations, gang involvement, and conspiracy, records reveal.