A Massachusetts man has been indicted for allegedly blowing up an ATM in Higher Boston, with an preliminary forensic examination of his telephone displaying that he looked for articles in regards to the explosion from native information shops.
Christopher Silva, 43, of Stoneham, stays in custody after being arrested in late October in reference to the early September incident in Woburn. He’s slated to be arraigned in federal court docket subsequent week.
A federal grand jury indicted Silva on Nov. 20 on one rely of maliciously damaging by way of an explosive actual property utilized in and affecting interstate commerce, which carries a sentence of at the very least 5 years in jail.
Silva may additionally resist three years of supervised launch and a fantastic of as much as $250,000.
The explosion at an Japanese Financial institution in Woburn unfolded within the early morning hours of Sept. 4, when surveillance footage captured a suspect, whom authorities later recognized as Silva, approaching an exterior ATM at about 4:12 a.m.
Silva may very well be seen carrying a blue balaclava, yellow glasses, a black jumpsuit with orange markings, a black-and-grey backpack, and dark-colored sneakers with pink markings, in keeping with authorities and charging paperwork.
“In the surveillance footage,” State Trooper Michael P. Callahan wrote in an affidavit in help of a legal criticism, “SILVA can be seen walking up to the left side of the ATM and placing a brown or tan-colored object on the bottom right corner of the ATM. The object then begins to emit smoke, and SILVA can be seen running away.”
“Several seconds later, the object explodes,” the trooper added. “The explosion caused significant damage to the frame and the lower right section of the ATM.”
Investigators recovered among the clothes and a strolling stick that Silva was seen carrying and carrying within the surveillance footage in a parking zone accessible on foot from the Japanese Financial institution ATM that exploded. Different objects had been recovered in trash luggage simply days after the incident, on Sept. 8.
A forensic scientist with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab collected DNA from Silva’s blue balaclava and yellow glasses, later linking the samples to the person’s DNA profile.
Authorities additionally seized and searched Silva’s cellphone, with a forensic examination ongoing.
In his affidavit to help the legal criticism, Callahan wrote that the outcomes from an preliminary examination confirmed Silva’s Google Chrome search historical past included “two articles … about the Eastern Bank ATM explosion. One article was by NBC Boston and the second article was on Patch.com and had the title ‘Lone Bomber Blows Up Woburn ATM.’”
