Crime & Safety
Oakland Mail Bomber Who Targeted Law Enforcement Officers Gets 40 Years In Prison
The device, a coin epoxied to the end of a pipe, was designed to shoot like a projectile when the package was opened.
July 15, 2022
Ross Gordon Laverty, who sent mail bombs in 2017 to homes of law enforcement officers in Alameda and East Palo Alto out of revenge, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, authorities said.
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Laverty was convicted in October 2020 of sending improvised explosive devices to a corrections officer who had him strip-searched while incarcerated at a San Mateo county jail, and to an Alameda police officer involved in a probation search of Laverty's that resulted in a drug arrest.
The device, a coin epoxied to the end of a pipe, was designed to shoot like a projectile when the package was opened, according to a press statement from U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Stephanie Hinds.
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