Police said Derek Klever, a 27-year-old who worked as a trial preparation assistant at the Queens District Attorney's office, had grown frustrated with partying at the Kamway Lodge in Elmhurst, a small hostel that the city has been using to temporarily house
''I know I shouldn't be doing this, but it's for Queens County,'' he said, according to the court filing.
''This is a war. I wish I had a big enough one to blow them back to Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
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Klever confided to an unnamed acquaintance that he had purchased fireworks and was going to combine their contents with nails, gasoline and other materials to create rudimentary explosives.
''I'm not trying to kill but injure,'' he said.
''I need to teach them a lesson.''
Klever claimed he had tested a version of the homemade explosive and was considering using a drone to drop multiple bombs on the unsuspecting residents in the shelter.
Police said Klever's fianc consented to a search of the apartment earlier this week, where they recovered a BB gun in a child's bedroom and various fireworks inside a closet in a larger bedroom.
Subsequent searches turned up other bomb-making materials, including explosive substances from disassembled fireworks that had been wrapped in tin foil, long nail cartridges that were also wrapped in foil, BB pellets and green wire, according to the complaint.