Twin Brothers Charged for Setting Off Bombs in Chester and Lancaster Counties
These two targeted Amish facilities in three out of five bombings. I wager that the tone and tenor of the articles about these incidents would be different if the two suspects were Black or Muslim.
On Tuesday, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan, in conjunction with the State Police, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), announced the arrests of Daniel Tate and Caleb Tate for setting off improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on five occasions, in western Chester County, near where they live in Londonderry outside Cochranville, and eastern Lancaster County.The targets of the bombing include a mailbox, an Amish phone shed, a small Amish produce shed, and a well pump shed. Although no people were in any of the buildings when the explosions took place, the detonations could have injured or killed anybody who was present, Hogan said in his press release. The explosions generally happened in the early morning hours.“We live in a world where the thought of bombs exploding around us is a very real fear,” the prosecutor said in his statement. “These defendants brought that fear to our region during a two-week crime spree where they detonated multiple IEDs. The Pennsylvania State Police and ATF did an outstanding job investigating this case and discovering who was responsible.”
