A California engineer pleaded guilty last week to bombings of Pacific Gas & Electric transformers in the San Jose area.
Peter Karasev, 38, admitted as part of a plea deal announced by the Justice Department last Tuesday that he had used homemade explosives to bomb energy facilities on two separate occasions.
One attack in December 2022 destroyed a transformer and left more than 1,450 PG&E customers without power for hours. The second attack in January 2023 damaged a transformer and a nearby building.
“Attacks on America’s critical infrastructure are attacks targeting the heart of our nation’s security. They will be treated like the grave threat they are to our country,” said Sue Bai, head of the Justice Department’s national security division, in a statement.
