MEDIA SILENT as ANOTHER Leftist Terrorist Is Busted Attempting to Blow up Confederate Statues in Houston

Houston — A Houston man has been charged with trying to plant explosives at the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Hermann Park, federal officials said Monday. Andrew Schneck, 25, who was released from probation early last year after being convicted in 2015 of storing explosives, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said in a statement Monday. Schneck was arrested Saturday night after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in bushes in front of the Dowling monument in the park, Martinez said. Schneck was holding two small boxes that included duct tape and wires. When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out, officials said.



Federal authorities said one of the tubes contained nitgroglycerin and hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, HMTD, a "highly explosive compound" used as a primary explosive. Nitroclycerin, in its purest form, is a contact explosive. "ln its undiluted form, [nitroglycerin] is one of the world's most powerful explosives," according to the statement. Schneck was arrested about 11 p.m. Saturday in the park, a source said, following a day of protests that drew hundreds of people to Sam Houston Park protesting a Spirit of the Confederacy statue. The Saturday event also drew counter-protesters. The details emerged as authorities on Monday evacuated residents near a home owned by Schneck's parents, in a neighborhood six blocks north of Rice University.



Residents living on Albans Road, between Hazard and Wilton streets, were urged 10 a.m. to leave their homes, according to an emergency alert from the city of Houston. Decision was made "out of an abundance of caution," said Larry Satterwhite, an assistant Houston police chief who oversees the Homeland Security Command. The alert warned residents that disposing of the material could cause loud noises, smoke and damage to nearby property. The source of the commotion was a single house at 2025 Albans, according to the Houston Police Department. Investigators were in and out the house all morning. By 9:15 a.m., FBI agents had set up a blue tent on the front lawn, presumably to review evidence. An agent wheeled a large plastic bin labeled "sample collection" toward the roped-off house.



Satterwhite said "significant hazardous materials" were found at the home, but didn't say what type they were. "It's a lot," he said. "There's a significant amount of material in them ... Some very hazardous materials were found." Law enforcement agents are planning controlled detonations of the materials, Satterwhite said. He added a utility company cut off gas service before the blasts, which will likely happen Monday afternoon. Neither Satterwhite nor FBI officials would confirm whether a suspect was in custody, in connection with the hazardous materials. They also would not address if the scene is related to a possible bomb threat to a Confederate statue in nearby Hermann Park. When asked whether authorities had used robots and haz-mat suits, Satterwhite replied, "We've used it all."