A Bay Area engineer who was convicted of blowing up Pacific Gas & Electric Co. transformers in the San Jose area been sentenced to a decade in federal prison, prosecutors said.
The Department of Justice announced that a judge on Tuesday sentenced 39-year-old Peter Karasev of San Jose to a 10-year sentence. Kasarev pleaded guilty in April to two counts of willful destruction of an energy facility in connection with the bombings, which took place in late 2022 and early 2023.
“Karasev’s specialized knowledge in explosives, the vast quantity of bombmaking materials discovered in his home, and his readiness to deploy both against our Nation’s energy infrastructure made him a very dangerous individual who posed a significant risk to public safety,” said John Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security…