A man who intentionally planted an incomplete bomb at a Home Depot to try to force the company to pay him $2 million is still guilty of planting a “destructive device” within the meaning of the extortion statute, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Daniel Sheehan argued that the inert model of a pipe bomb he planted at the Huntington Station Home Depot on Long Island in 2012 doesn’t count as an explosive device under the law.
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