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Twenty-two-year-old twin brothers, including one who is a student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, have been arrested in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on suspicion of setting off bombs in five different locations in Chester and Lancaster counties, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s office.
There was no immediate word of alleged motive, but some bombings apparently involved the Amish community.
The bomb blasts took place in December when the brothers, Daniel — the Pepperdine student — and Caleb, a student at Belmont University in Tennessee, were home in Cochranville, Pennsylvania, on winter break, according to the D.A.’s office.
The attacks included blowing up a mailbox in Chester County on Dec. 20, the detonation of an improvised explosive device in the Chester County woods on Dec. 22, a pipe bomb that blew up an Amish-owned phone shed in Lancaster County on Dec. 30. The phone shed was the communal phone for Amish families in the area since they do not allow themselves phones in their homes.
On Dec. 31 the Tate brothers allegedly detonated a second IED, destroying an Amish produce shed, and allegedly detonated another bomb in a well pump shed in Chester County that destroyed the structure.
The Tate brothers are each facing multiple felony charges that include arson by explosives, arson by possession of explosive devices, conspiracy and theft, according to the D.A.’s office.
ABC7 tried to contact Pepperdine administrators for comment on their student’s arrest, but the school’s administrators did not respond to calls for comment, according to the station.
—City News Service