Brian Cole Jr. kept buying bomb-making components after planting them
DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. continued buying bomb-making components even after allegedly placing them outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 riots, according to a criminal complaint.
Cole, 30, assembled his crude explosive devices from items purchased at several retailers around northern Virginia, including eight different Home Depot stores, as well as Micro Center, Lowes and Walmart.
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The pipe-bombs were fashioned from eight-inch galvanized steel pipes closed off with end caps, and rigged with nine-volt batteries and white kitchen-timers.
The affidavit goes into painstaking detail about how the FBI was able to identify Cole and place him at the scene of the crime, the bureau tracing Cole’s precise movements as he placed the devices using cell tower location data in proximity to the buildings he was allegedly targeting.
According to the document, he placed the pipe bomb at the DNC at approximately 7:54 p.m. on Jan. 5, and at the RNC at 8:16 p.m.
Cole was arrested Thursday after a multi-agency effort and charged with the use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.
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