LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Investigators have provided new details about the case of a father accused of teaching his 6- year-old boy how to build and blow up homemade bombs out of items such as empty milk jugs and gunpowder.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives supervisor Brent Quinn said the father’s creations — one of which was recovered from his Las Cruces home Thursday and disarmed by bomb squad robots — were nothing short of “improvised explosive devices.”
Anthony Stromberg, a 44-year-old convicted felon, allegedly built two types of bombs at his trailer-park home — a pipe bomb made from gunpowder and plastic tubing and another made from fuses, black putty and a milk jug.
The boy drew diagrams of the explosives for detectives and explained how they were built. He told police his father first took him to blow up the devices during last year’s Fourth of July holiday.
Denver Post wire services
