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Bomb plot in Waseca, Minnesota has been foiled!


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A Minnesota teenager was arrested on Tuesday at a storage facility in Waseca after suspicious activity was reported by a watchful citizen, police officers were called to Mini Max storage facility after a bystander witnessed 17 year old John David LaDue go inside a storage locker and close the door, when police arrived they questioned him, LaDue acted defensively but soon agreed to talk to the officers if they "could guess what he was doing", one of the officers suggested that he was making explosive devices, LaDue agreed to let the officers search his home, officers investigated his home and found several firearms as well as several explosive devices and a notebook that detailed the plot that was set to take place just a few weeks from that day.  It was detailed in the notebook that LaDue planned to shoot his family, then travel just outside the city and start a diversionary fire to distract emergency services (similar to prior to the Columbine Massacre in April of 1999), then head to Waseca Senior High School and plant a bomb that would be detonated by pressure cookers during lunch in the cafeteria, afterwards he would proceed to shoot any survivors.  It is stated in his notebook that his end goal was to be killed by the police department's SWAT team.

 

He was charged on Thursday on four counts of attempted first degree murder, six counts of possession of explosive devices, and two counts of damage to property.

 

He is currently being held at a local juvenile detention facility.

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Apparently he idolized Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who planned to blow up their school but when the bombs didn't go off the went in and killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School, April 20th 1999.

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