The dumbassery is hitting a little closer to home this time:
A Houston man has been charged with trying to plant explosives at the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Hermann Park, federal officials said Monday.
Andrew Schneck, 25, who was released from probation early last year after being convicted in 2015 of storing explosives, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said in a statement Monday.
Schneck was arrested Saturday night after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in bushes in front of the Dowling monument in the park, Martinez said.
Schneck was holding two small boxes that included duct tape and wires.
When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out, officials said.
Federal authorities said one of the tubes contained nitgroglycerin and hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, HMTD, a “highly explosive compound” used as a primary explosive. Nitroclycerin, in its purest form, is a contact explosive.
“ln its undiluted form, [nitroglycerin] is one of the world’s most powerful explosives,” according to the statement.
Schneck was arrested about 11 p.m. Saturday in the park, a source said, following a day of protests that drew hundreds of people to Sam Houston Park protesting a Spirit of the Confederacy statue.
His full name is reportedly Andrew Cecil Earhart Schneck, who’s 2015 arrest raid involved 50 FBI agents. Schneck evidently received five years probation at that time, which means his current attempted student is extra compounded dumbassery.
Update: Via Popehat comes Mr. Schneck’s unopposed motion for early termination of supervised release. I bet the Hon. Judge Nancy K. Johnson would really like that one back. It does mean Mr. Schneck was technically no longer on parole when he (allegedly) committed his new offense, but his prior history will compel the feds to come down on him like a ton of bricks none the less…
Tags: Andrew Schneck, antifa, Crime, Democrats, Houston, Social Justice Warriors, Texas
If the dumb arse had waited a few days, the powers-that-be would probably have removed the statues for him… I.e., I see UT/Austin has just removed Confederate related statutes from it’s campus in the dead of night.
Good grief!
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