Bomb Maker Blows up his Mother
Andrew Hallock, 27, of the 600 block of Mulberry Street in Sebastian, is charged with making or throwing a destructive device, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years.
And he wasn’t licensed or authorized to manufacture explosive devices or compounds, according to an arrest affidavit.
Bail was set at $20,000 during Hallock’s first-appearance hearing Monday morning. He declined to comment at the hearing. Prosecutors said he had no prior criminal record.
In addition to the explosion at his mother’s home, a bomb was found at Hallock’s home. The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad destroyed that device early Monday on the property of the Sebastian Municipal Airport, a police official said.
His mother, Nancy Galuppo, was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center on Sunday afternoon for treatment of injuries suffered in an explosion about 2 p.m. in a backyard shed at her home on the 1700 block of Shakespeare Street.
The explosion tore out two walls of the metal shed and part of the roof and created a hole in the floor, reports show.
Galuppo had tried calling Hallock on Sunday, saying she was attempting to clean out the shed and had found “multiple items which appeared to be foul-smelling chemicals,” according to the affidavit. Hallock had previously lived at Galuppo’s house and worked with explosive compounds there, something his mother apparently did not condone, reports show.