By Staff reports
April 6, 2007
A lawyer for a former Army infantryman Thursday downplayed the explosions heard by Ventura residents last month as "glorified fireworks."
Attorney Randy Tucker, with the Public Defender's Office, declined to elaborate on his remark.
Tucker and his client Allan Toney, 28, were in court Thursday after Toney was charged with weapons violations and possession of ingredients to make a destructive device.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Bruce Clark agreed to continue the hearing until next week. Toney is in custody at the County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
Police obtained a search warrant for Toney's residence in the 100 block of South Hemlock Street in Ventura. Inside, they found several complete pipe bombs, bomb materials, an AK-47 and several guns, Vance had said.
Toney was arrested March 25 after two explosions rang out near a Ventura school the night before and residents reported a smoking pipe bomb near Crimea and Meta streets about 9:35 p.m., Ventura Police Lt. Ray Vance said.
Responding officers heard a second explosion in the 100 block of South Hemlock several hundred yards from where they found the unexploded bomb. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department bomb squad later defused the bomb without incident.
April 6, 2007
A lawyer for a former Army infantryman Thursday downplayed the explosions heard by Ventura residents last month as "glorified fireworks."
Attorney Randy Tucker, with the Public Defender's Office, declined to elaborate on his remark.
Tucker and his client Allan Toney, 28, were in court Thursday after Toney was charged with weapons violations and possession of ingredients to make a destructive device.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Bruce Clark agreed to continue the hearing until next week. Toney is in custody at the County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
Police obtained a search warrant for Toney's residence in the 100 block of South Hemlock Street in Ventura. Inside, they found several complete pipe bombs, bomb materials, an AK-47 and several guns, Vance had said.
Toney was arrested March 25 after two explosions rang out near a Ventura school the night before and residents reported a smoking pipe bomb near Crimea and Meta streets about 9:35 p.m., Ventura Police Lt. Ray Vance said.
Responding officers heard a second explosion in the 100 block of South Hemlock several hundred yards from where they found the unexploded bomb. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department bomb squad later defused the bomb without incident.