Another Bomb Suspect Arrested In Escondido

Pipe Bomb/Photo Palo Pinto County Sheriff

After doing some more research on the situation going on with George Jakubec and the explosives found in house in Escondido I ran upon another report that hasn't made televised news, matter of fact I haven't even seen anything about it in the San Diego Union Tribune, for some reason it hasn't garnered the same attention as the one involving Jakubec.

On November 28th, Richard Hinkel, 45, was screaming in the backyard of his home in the 2300 block of Country View Glen just before 5 a.m., said Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter and when Escondido police arrived they found 18 explosive devices, 12 rifles, 10 handguns and fireworks on Hinkel's property, at this time police say it appears there is no connection between the two.

Now wait a second what is going on here? The total news story on Hinkle was about 3 paragraphs long so I am going to do much more research on this guy, but I don't understand how the police can immediately rule out a connection when they didn't even know these two guys existed prior to the day the were arrested.

Hinkle who appeared in court yesterday pleaded guilty to 16 felony counts of  possession of a destructive device and a misdemeanor count of having fireworks stored without a permit, again authorities are saying there appears to be no link between Hinkle and George Jakubec, again I ask how can they be so sure and what are they hiding.  I have never seen Hinkle's story on a news broadcast and most of the story's are buried with misleading headlines.  For instance CBS channel eight here in San Diego on their web page doesn't even mention the word explosive devices in it's head line.  The head line reads "Man accused of possessing firearms, fireworks pleads not guilty", buried in the story you finally read that Hinkle pleaded not guilty to the 16 felony counts of possession of a destructive device.

There is something wrong with this story and I am going to stay on top of it and keep everyone updated so please check back. As of right now I can't even find a picture of this guy on any news site, you would think after the Jakubec case the courtroom would have been crammed with journalists.

San Diego County To Burn Down Bomb Factory




Mario Gomez/Photo NBC San Diego

  Here is a scary thought for those of you who think it can't happen in your neighborhood, as you all have probably seen in the news lately a couple weeks ago Mario Gomez, 49 of Fallbrook, Ca was going about what he though was a normal day working as the gardener for George Jakubec, 54 around his Escondido, Ca. home when suddenly he stepped on a IED similar to what is killing our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, sending him to the local hospital in the back of an ambulance.

Since that day federal, state and local law enforcement personal have been combing through Jakubec's home trying to locate all the explosive material that may be present on the property.  To date officials have found approximately nine pounds of explosive material, including a large amount of hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD.

HMTD by the way is the same material that  "Underwear Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had sewn into his underwear last December when he flew on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25, 2009, it is also the same material found in the bombs that where constructed around printer cartridges found in Britain and Dubai and set off a massive search for packages mailed from Yemen and shipped via Federal Express and UPS.

All that information in itself is scary, yet so many of us think something like this won't happen where we live, however this bomb factory being run by Jakubec happens to be only 32.2 miles from my own home from my front door to his front door, think about it, it is conceivable that George Jakubec have actually ran into each other somewhere in San Diego, yes he is practically my neighbor and this guy I'm sure wasn't building IED's and other types of bombs just for the fun of it, though as of yet they don't know what his targets may have been but he is obviously a domestic terrorist with an agenda.

San Diego "Bomb Factory"/Photo Boingboing

Yesterday San Diego County officials announced that they where going to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare the entire county of San Diego under a temporary state of emergency so that some safety regulations and environmental laws can be by-passed, as this so that they may burn this $494,000  home to the ground. Officials say it is just way to dangerous to keep searching the house the way they have been, as it is their belief that it's only a matter of time before something explodes possibly injuring or killing law enforcement personal.

So is George Jakubec a want to be Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, of the Oklahoma City Bombing? It seems so and the worst part is that the US Government thinks they have the majority of  possible domestic terrorists pinpointed, yet this guy has been slipping under the FBI and ATF radar for years.  We have been doing pretty good at stopping the international terrorists, like the teenage suspect in the Portland tree lighting bombing plot captured earlier this week. Now it seems our week spot is getting a handle on domestic terrorists.