ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal prosecutors accuse a Texas man of purchasing fireworks from a store in New Mexico on his way to use them in California.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 48-year-old Grzegorz Vandenberg went to a travel center Thursday in Lordsburg and asked employees to help him select fireworks he could throw directly at people to harm them. He allegedly told employees he could make pipe bombs and was going to Los Angeles for the riots to try to kill law enforcement officers or government officials.
Vandenberg allegedly bought six mortars, each containing 60 grams of gunpowder, and 36 large fireworks, before heading west on Interstate 10 from the store…