The NYPDs Intelligence Division investigated and identified a 15-year-old female student as the prime suspect. She told the investigators that she had done it at the suggestion of a 27-year-old teacher named Christian Toro after she had complained that she was bored.In the meantime, the student charged with calling in the bomb threat also told investigators that she had been having sex with Christian Toro in the apartment beginning in October. He was arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with statutory rape.underage minors to assist in amassing the makings of a bomb. They were arrested and arraigned in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening. Both twins were charged with unlawfully manufacturing a destructive device. Christian Toro was also charged with of distribution of explosive materials to a minor.
Date: Feb 16, 2018
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NYC twin brothers arrested for manufacturing explosives
The FBI's criminal complaint against the two brothers states that a bomb threat was called into the school Christian Toro taught at on Dec. 4. A student was arrested in connection with the bomb threat and, shortly after, Christian Toro resigned.FBI agents interviewed Christian Toro about the content on the laptop and he said he unintentionally downloaded the materials while researching the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. He said he never built a bomb and only read the document's table of contents.John J. Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the NYPD, told the New York Times that Christian Toro was arrested on Jan. 31 for raping a victim under the age of 17 who was a student of his.
Date: Feb 16, 2018
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Ex-New York City teacher accused of paying students for help making bomb
The case grew out of a bomb threat called into a school by a student in December. Authorities said Christian Toro then resigned, Tyler Toro returned the ex-teacher's school laptop and a technician found a document about explosives on it.
Date: Feb 16, 2018
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Ex-NYC teacher, twin brother had students break down bomb materials for alleged terrorist strike in Bronx home
A Dec. 4 bomb threat by a 15-year-old student lead to the plans unraveling, Miller said. That student was arrested, and on Jan. 10, Christian Toro abruptly quit his job at the nonpublic school, Miller said.
Date: Feb 16, 2018
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Twin brothers arrested in NYC on explosives charges after authorities find bomb-making materials
On Dec. 4, 2017, a student was arrested after a bomb threat was called into a high school in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood, and Christian Toro resigned from his teaching position shortly after the arrest, the complaint states.After the resignation, Tyler Toro returned Christian Toro's school-issued laptop, where a technical specialist found a copy of the "Explosives Book," a text that provides instructions for manufacturing explosive devices, according to the complaint.On Feb. 8 of this year, multiple law enforcement agents interviewed Christian Toro, who stated that he "had not intentionally downloaded" the incriminating book into the laptop. Instead, Christian Toro stated that he had been researching the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and had come across a copy oOn Wednesday, investigators interviewed multiple students at the school, who indicated that at least two students visited an apartment where Christian Toro would pay them $50 per hour to break apart fireworks and store the powder that came out of them in containers, the court document states. The st
Date: Feb 15, 2018
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Ex-NYC school teacher, twin brother had students break down bomb materials in home
Christian Toro claimed he had been researching the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and had never built a bomb and had only looked at the Explosives Books table of contents, court papers state.
The teacher, Christian Toro, was arrested on Jan. 31 on charges of raping a minor. The other man was identified as Tyler Toro. The complaint said that a diary found in the apartment contained writing that referred to the brothers as Twin Toros. Strike us now, they wrote, we will return with nan