NYPD Finds Explosives In Brooklyn Apartment By Jonathan Dienst WNBC-TV POSTED: 8:43 am EST Jan 20, 2008 UPDATED: 2:08 pm EST January 20, 2008 <http://www.wnbc.com/investigations/15097460/detail.html> http://www.wnbc.com/investigations/15097460/detail.html
NEW YORK -- The NYPD bomb squad rushed to a Brooklyn Heights apartment Sunday after officers saw what appeared to be several pipe bombs inside. Numerous weapons were also found inside the Remsen Street apartment, police said. Investigators are questioning the 31-year-old resident about why there were so many weapons inside the apartment. Both police and emergency medical crews were sent to the apartment after the man called 911 saying he had shot himself in the hand, one law enforcement official said. Arsenal Is Found at Home of Columbia Professor BY SARAH GARLAND - New York Sun January 21, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/article/69826> http://www.nysun.com/article/69826 An arsenal of weapons and explosive devices was found in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of a Columbia University professor yesterday morning after the professor's roommate accidentally shot himself, police said. Police said they removed seven homemade pipe bombs, a 9 mm shotgun, a rifle, a crossbow and arrows, a machete, ammunition, gun silencers, and several bulletproof vests from a small one-bedroom apartment at 58 Remsen St. that neighbors say is owned by Michael Clatts, an AIDS researcher at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and the National Development and Research Institutes. The arsenal was discovered after a man who also lived in the one-bedroom attic apartment, identified by sources as Ivaylo Ivanov, 31, shot himself in the hand. Police said they were doing routine checks into whether Mr. Ivanov was linked to terrorist groups, and would be testing the bombs, which had fuses and powder, to see if they were operable. Police said one of the suspected bombs had been inserted into a toy football, and throughout the day they removed evidence from the apartment, including a laptop computer, a video game console, and tools for drilling into pipes... Police Investigating Motive of Man Who Had Arsenal in Brooklyn BY SARAH GARLAND - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 22, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/article/69909> http://www.nysun.com/article/69909 Police are investigating whether a man who collected an arsenal of pipe bombs and weapons in a Brooklyn Heights apartment was planning to bomb synagogues around the city, police sources told The New York Sun yesterday. The man, whom police identified as Ivaylo Ivanov, 31, told police during questioning yesterday that he had been building the bombs to use while fishing, the sources said. But police were doing forensic tests on Mr. Ivanov's computer to check whether he planned to target synagogues after it was discovered that the man was responsible for painting a series of swastikas in Brooklyn Heights in the fall that set off a spike in hate crimes around the city. Seven pipe bombs were found in his apartment, and drill equipment used to build bombs was also found, police said. Mr. Ivanov had been a prime suspect in the bias incident, and police had been inside his apartment several times in recent months - even enlisting him as a confidential police informant in a ploy to check his handwriting against anti-Semitic slurs scrawled on leaflets left along the block in September. In that incident, 23 swastikas and derogatory statements against Jews were found along Remsen Street in a single night. Police said Mr. Ivanov told officers that he was born in Sicily and raised in Bulgaria, and that he appears to be unemployed... Weapons Trove Suspect Is Linked to Hate Crimes By FERNANDA SANTOS and KAREEM FAHIM Jan 22, 2008 New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/nyregion/22arrest.html> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/nyregion/22arrest.html subscription req'd . And later Monday evening, after Mr. Ivanov's arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court, his lawyer surprised reporters with his own announcement: Mr. Ivanov is himself Jewish. The revelation was the latest twist in a bizarre story that features a man who, police said, shot his own finger; a sizable weapons collection, including pipe bombs and a sawed-off shotgun, found in an apartment in one of Brooklyn's most exclusive neighborhoods; and a prominent H.I.V./AIDS researcher and medical anthropologist, who owns the apartment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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