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UA student arrested in connection with nitrogen bombs
UAPD
Jack Willems
Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: News
"He was dazed and confused as a result of the concussion, and he also received minor injuries to his hand," Rice said.
If there is nothing else in it, filling a plastic bottle with liquid nitrogen "could tear up anything within 6 to 8 feet," Rice said. If the bottle was filled with objects like gravel or sticks, then the shrapnel could travel 20 to 25 feet, Rice said.
No one was hurt in this instance, Rice said. There was no property damage, and the group did not think it would be that loud, Wellenberger said. When the police came, Born told them that he was the one responsible and they took him away, Wellenberger said. The police told everyone else in the group that they would be contacted by the judicial board, but Wellenberger said he has not yet been contacted by the judicial board, he said.
Born was released Friday afternoon. He said he did not want to cause any trouble and had never done anything like that before.
While use of a criminal weapon is a Class D Felony, the police and the judge told him that his sentence "should be reduced to a misdemeanor," Born said.
"I don't think the reaction would be the same if it were in the middle of a field," Rice said, "but to set off a bomb in the middle of a university campus is just not safe."
If there is nothing else in it, filling a plastic bottle with liquid nitrogen "could tear up anything within 6 to 8 feet," Rice said. If the bottle was filled with objects like gravel or sticks, then the shrapnel could travel 20 to 25 feet, Rice said.
No one was hurt in this instance, Rice said. There was no property damage, and the group did not think it would be that loud, Wellenberger said. When the police came, Born told them that he was the one responsible and they took him away, Wellenberger said. The police told everyone else in the group that they would be contacted by the judicial board, but Wellenberger said he has not yet been contacted by the judicial board, he said.
Born was released Friday afternoon. He said he did not want to cause any trouble and had never done anything like that before.
While use of a criminal weapon is a Class D Felony, the police and the judge told him that his sentence "should be reduced to a misdemeanor," Born said.
"I don't think the reaction would be the same if it were in the middle of a field," Rice said, "but to set off a bomb in the middle of a university campus is just not safe."
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