Brownsville man featured in photo essay sentenced on explosives charge
Law enforcement was alerted to the man after he was featured in a 2019 Popular Science photo essay. 10:00 am, Jan. 13, 2021 ×
Kenneth Miller
MINNEAPOLIS A Houston man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in federal prison after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives became of aware through a magazine article that he was making explosives.
Kenneth Ray Miller, 58, pleaded guilty in September in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to a count of manufacturing and dealing explosive materials. On Tuesday, Miller was sentenced by Judge Patrick J. Schiltz to 22 months in federal prison. Miller s prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised probation.
The move comes after last week's violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists, as well as reports from FBI warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration .
SE Minnesota 911 Outage Blamed on Faulty Equipment
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St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The 911 service outage that hit southeastern Minnesota yesterday is now being blamed on faulty equipment.
CenturyLink, which now operates under the name Lumen Technologies, is the provider of Minnesota s 911 service. It was initially reported that a cut fiber optic line was to blame for the outage but the company now puts the blame on a bad card connected to a large national fiber line in Green Bay Wisconsin. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says the issue was resolved and the service restored after engineers rebooted the equipment.