@RobertBarnes @VivaFrei and all. 🚨This substack includes the affidavit for the January 5, 2021 pipe bomber.
Read the criminal complaint below:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287327/gov.uscourts.dcd.287327.1.1.pdf
https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/read-the-fbi-affidavit-identifying
NOTE: I am positive we were told the cell phone data for the pipe bomber person depicted in the videos was corrupted. Magically, it was not.
Here are some quotes of interest from the substack.
“The affidavit concludes that the totality of evidence—purchases, surveillance alignment, telecommunications data, vehicle movement and matching physical characteristics—establishes probable cause that Cole placed both explosive devices on Jan. 5, 2021.”
“The FBI also obtained HISTORICAL CELL-SITE RECORDS for COLE’S PHONE. The affidavit states that the PHONE engaged in seven data transactions between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. on Jan. 5 with cell towers that line up with the suspect’s path in the surveillance videos.
According to the affidavit, the PHONE connected at 7:39 p.m. with two sectors covering D Street SE and South Capitol Street SE—the same area where the unidentified individual was seen walking at 7:39:32 p.m.
It connected AGAIN minutes later on sectors matching movements through Ivy Street SE, New Jersey Avenue SE and the alley near the RNC where the second device was planted.
The FINAL connections occurred near Pennsylvania Avenue SE, consistent with the last recorded movement of the suspect.
Cole’s 2017 Nissan Sentra was also recorded by a LICENSE PLATE READER at 7:10 p.m. exiting I-395 about a half-mile from the first surveillance sighting.
The FBI reviewed Cole’s purchase history and found he had made only five documented purchases in Washington between 2018 and 2021. One of those occurred on Dec. 14, 2020, at a restaurant located across from the entrance to Rumsey Court—the same alley the bomber later used on Jan. 5.”
“ The FBI affidavit states that SURVEILLANCE VIDEO from the evening of Jan. 5 shows a masked individual wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark gloves, Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes and eyeglasses as they walked through the Capitol Hill neighborhood between 7:34 p.m. and 8:18 p.m. The same individual was seen placing a device at the DNC at about 7:54 p.m. and another at the RNC at about 8:16 p.m.
A HEIGHT analysis conducted in January 2021 estimated the person’s height at 5 feet 7 inches, plus or minus 1.1 inches. Cole is described in the affidavit as 5 feet 6 inches tall and wearing corrective glasses.”
“PURCHASES That Match the Bomb Components
Investigators say Cole spent years buying the exact materials later found in both devices. FINANCIAL RECORDS for ONE bank account and SIX credit cards show purchases of:
Six 1-by-8-inch galvanized metal pipes
Black and galvanized metal end caps
Multiple nine-volt battery connectors with distributor-specific insulation markings
White kitchen timers
Red and black 14-gauge electrical wire
Alligator clips, steel wool, wire tools, sandpaper and a machinist’s file
The government notes in its filings that each of these items MATCH components recovered from the two pipe bombs, neither of which detonated.”
