Georgia inmate serving life mailed bombs from prison to D.C. office building, Alaska court, feds charge

• A man serving a life sentence for kidnapping and other crimes while in a Georgia prison built two bombs which he mailed to a District of Columbia office building and the federal courthouse and building in Anchorage, Alaska, prosecutors allege.
• The accused bomb maker, David Cassady, allegedly put the two explosive devices into the mail at his prison in Tattnall County on Jan. 24, 2020, according to an indictment.
• The bomb that went to Washington, D.C., was mailed to the Bond Building, whose office tenants include the Department of Justice.
• Cassady has a long criminal record dating to the late 1980s, when he was sentenced to prison for three years after convictions for six counts of first-degree forgery.

A man serving a life sentence for kidnapping and other crimes while in a Georgia prison built two bombs which he mailed to a District of Columbia office building and the federal courthouse and building in Anchorage, Alaska, prosecutors allege.

The accused bomb maker, 55-year-old David Cassady, allegedly put the two explosive devices into the mail at his prison in Tattnall County on Jan. 24, 2020, according to an indictment issued by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Statesboro, Georgia.

The bomb that went to Washington, D.C., was mailed to the Bond Building, whose office tenants include the Department of Justice.

The indictment alleges Cassady made and sent the bombs with the intent to "to maliciously damage or destroy, by means of fire or explosive, a building in whole or in part owned or possessed by, or leased to, the United States," and "created substantial risk of injury to a person."

Neither bomb exploded.

Cassady is charged with one count of making an unregistered destructive device, two counts of mailing a