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A Prior Lake couple allegedly thought it would be "a good educational tool" for their son and his friends to learn how to make homemade explosives from PVC pipe and gunpowder.
They had no idea, they reportedly said, that the teens would go on a destructive spree, using pipe bombs to explode mailboxes in Burnsville, Lakeville and rural Scott County.
One of the incidents drew Bloomington's bomb squad, according to charges.
The allegations surfaced in two criminal complaints filed last month by the Scott County attorney's office against Robert and Roberta Masters, who each face felony charges of manufacturing explosives and aiding offenders in a felony.
Their first court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Robert Masters, 48, is suspected of accompanying his son last spring to Fleet Farm in Lakeville, where, over two visits, they bought 2 pounds of gunpowder using a credit card. The powder, which is used to arm muzzle-loading firearms, cannot be bought by anyone under the age of 18.
Masters then showed his son and his son's friends how to assemble explosives on the family's workbench, and he and his wife encouraged the teens to learn more by watching how-to videos on YouTube, according to the criminal complaints.
Not long afterward, mailboxes in Burnsville, Lakeville and Scott County began exploding.
They had no idea, they reportedly said, that the teens would go on a destructive spree, using pipe bombs to explode mailboxes in Burnsville, Lakeville and rural Scott County.
One of the incidents drew Bloomington's bomb squad, according to charges.
The allegations surfaced in two criminal complaints filed last month by the Scott County attorney's office against Robert and Roberta Masters, who each face felony charges of manufacturing explosives and aiding offenders in a felony.
Their first court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Robert Masters, 48, is suspected of accompanying his son last spring to Fleet Farm in Lakeville, where, over two visits, they bought 2 pounds of gunpowder using a credit card. The powder, which is used to arm muzzle-loading firearms, cannot be bought by anyone under the age of 18.
Masters then showed his son and his son's friends how to assemble explosives on the family's workbench, and he and his wife encouraged the teens to learn more by watching how-to videos on YouTube, according to the criminal complaints.
Not long afterward, mailboxes in Burnsville, Lakeville and Scott County began exploding.
