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Pennsylvania Man Charged After Pipe Bomb Built for 'Entertainment' Explodes at Home

Police say he assembled the device from a PVC pipe packed with black powder to show guests.

Overview

  • Travis Peachey, 51, was injured when a homemade pipe bomb exploded in his shed Saturday night in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County.
  • Troopers say he made the device from a PVC pipe filled with about six ounces of black powder and wired it to a motorcycle switch.
  • He first set the bomb on a woodpile to entertain expected guests, then tried to disarm it in the shed after plans fell through, dropped it, and it detonated.
  • His wife and two children were home but unhurt, and hospital staff removed shrapnel from his head that investigators logged as evidence.
  • State police arrested him the same day and charged him with multiple felonies, including endangering children and risking catastrophe, and he remains in Lancaster County Prison on $500,000 bail.