Allegedly tells co-worker he’ll use it against employer’s business if he gets laid of
TIVERTON — A Tiverton man’s alleged threat to place a pipe bomb at his employer’s place of business if he got laid off drew quick action last Tuesday afternoon from 30 to 40 law enforcement officers from over half a dozen local, state, and federal agencies.
James R. Lapre, 24, of 320 Hurst Lane, Tiverton, was charged with disorderly conduct and with threatening to place a bomb in a public place (a felony) after police took him into custody, then searched his residence and discovered makeshift bomb-making materials.
Police said that a co-worker Mr. Lapre had invited to his home said he saw there a section of PVC pipe, nails, and other materials that he lifted and described as heavy.
Police said that when the co-worker asked what the pipe and materials were for, Mr. Lapre told him that he was going to leave the bomb at their boss’s business if he was laid off. The co-worker told the employer, who reported the matter to Tiverton police.
Armed with a search warrant, Tiverton police officers and detectives, along with representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Rhode Island State Police, the Rhode Island Fire Marshall’s office, the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA), and tactical and bomb squad units, surrounded Mr. Lapre’s Hurst Lane residence.
Lieutenant Patrick W. Jones said that bomb-type materials were found in Mr. Lapre’s residence, but no explosive elements were discovered. Out of caution, officers attempted to blow the device up — there was no explosion.
On questioning, Mr. Lapre admitted what he’d said to the co-worker, said Lt. Jones, and told police that he intended it as a joke.
intended as a joke........good joke man lots of laughs here
I live right up the street from where this happened, I was quite frightened to come home and have the police, fire, and ambulance outside my house. When I saw the armored vehicle go down the street I didn't know what was going on. This is not a laughing matter. I think we should have been informed of what was going on or maybe asked to leave our homes until the issue was resolved.
The poor guy probably worked a slave labor non union job, where there's no such thing as job security, and employees are treated like garbage. Hmmmmmmm......I wonder if this is where Jethro Joe Sousa works?
"poor guy" You gotta be kidding. I don't care what he was paid and what he's expected to do for it he deserves what he gets, if for nothing else than being stupid enough to brag about it. With all the people out there being let go this one would actually blame his boss and try to kill him and whoever got in the way. He actually had some of the materials to make the bomb, doesn't sound like someone joking around.
On the other hand he could also be a Union guy working for the leadership who think they live in france where jobs are for life and all benifits are for life. LOL
Jack
geez, I didn't think of that angle thats probably it. ;->
What you will need to make a bomb:
1. PVC Pipe
2. Nails
3. Items that when lifted can be described as heavy
You think he lost the job yet.
Yea flannel man it does sound like a joke of poor taste since no explosives were found at all. Still wrong to say it as a threat is a threat and if he laughed to his friend after he said it maybe it was a bad joke. Dont think this would hold up in court either since there was no explosives in my opinion. hell terrorist get away with it even when they have expolosives.
Jack
Still have his job no doubt if its a Union shop jaqdadi with back pay law suit for undue stress free lawyers from the Union. Ice cream,cake, beer, HD TV, Vacation at Sandle Resorts, Life supply of nails and PVC pipe, anarchist handbook, Local Union Award for ingenious thinking on stopping layoff's, Union slaughtered free turkey for thankgiving stuffed with Taxpayer blood money, Gift certicate for Patrick Kenedy for free Rehab if needed, Union stipend to update his home computer to do better research on materials to use for his hobbies. LOL
Jack
I doubt this will get anywhere in court. No explosives, and the items found you would find in any garage. I doubt his co worker wanted to compete for the job, found an easy way to get rid of the competition.
Well, it still cost him his job. Probably going to get fired for being stupid about other things as well. Why would anyone brag about something like this if he wasn't serious. The person he bragged to couldn't have been too close to him. Maybe he was actually trying to obtain the explosives and when his buddy didn't react the way he wanted, he backtracked about it.
Either way this guy can't be too brigh,t to have made a statement like that at this time, with someone you can't trust, just shows how massively stupid some people can be.
Ice cream, cake, beer, HD TV, vacations, etc.-aren't those the types of things you get as a UNION FIREFIGHTER at the navy base? I guess once you've reaped the benefits that your union fought for, you're then free to bash those same unions. Sounds like the ultimate in hypocrisy to me. Hell, if unions are so bad, why didn't the government just have volunteer firefighters at the navy base, and save all those millions of dollars?
im curious what the heavy items were.....i think the cops could go into any home and come out with makeshift bomb materials, that's why they are called "makeshift" no?
rule # 1: Don't say bomb in public unless your using it to mean something good, "Damn, that hoagie was bomb."
By the way, the threat was enough to charge him. They didn't need to find any explosives to go ahead with an arrest. If he was slated to be fired, and he made those statements, as well as what they did find, then he needs a good slap in the face to wake him up. On the other hand, sending him to jail maybe the one thing he needed to find out how he could get the explosives and complete the thing.
well since there was no blasting cap or electronics to remotly use for this which there would have to be because he would have had a lot of trouble trying to time a fuse to go off at the right time and hide himself from the boss not to mention the burning smell means one of 2 things he really was joking or he is the stupidist bomb make since the shoe bomber.
Jack
On another note that riccotti's meatball sub was the bomb ;-}
with explosive hot sauce of course explodes in your mouth not to mention the next day LOL
Hmm one wonders if order firery hot wings is that materials for being an arsonist. LOL
And one wonders if the retired firefighters that worked at the Newport Naval Base are going to donate their pension checks to the laid off firefighters when the Naval Base Firefighters Union caves in to the government and allows them to bring in a scab company like Rural Metro to provide fire protection to the base.
Hateful union_teacher says'
"Ice cream, cake, beer, HD TV, vacations, etc.-aren't those the types of things you get as a UNION FIREFIGHTER at the navy base? I guess once you've reaped the benefits that your union fought for, you're then free to bash those same unions. Sounds like the ultimate in hypocrisy to me. Hell, if unions are so bad, why didn't the government just have volunteer firefighters at the navy base, and save all those millions of dollars?"
Still wondering what the point of that one is. If you are talking about jackkb, then I gotta tell ya, I know jack and he isn't some lame hyppocrate like you. He lives his words and is well respected by his peers. You on the other hand hide in the weeds to come out only when there is some reason to make a negative comment. I had a little respect for your comments when it seemed that there was some reason to what you were saying, however, for whatever reason there is no reasoning in the vast majority of your statements of late.
It seems to me that there is no room for compassion within you. Like when you made those crude statements about that guy in Warren who's mother found him dying in the street, you couldn't even leave that one alone. You and wm deserve each other. Your both crude and inneffective.
i think he worked for a towing company, i do not see the tow truck go down the street anymore since that night...
My compassion ends Jaqdadi, when a union member, who reaped the benefits of union representation for his entire career, now says that union leaders are corrupt, too demanding, etc. That's even more hypocritical than that scumbag Gablinske bashing the unions, but sucking up the free health care from his school teacher wife. I have more respect for Joe Sousa and Watchman-at least they were never union members and never benefited from what the union bargained for. On the other hand, I fight for ALL union members, whether they be police officers, school teachers, public works employees, teamsters, laborers, and NAVY BASE FIREFIGHTERS. To only pick and choose certain unions to support, or certain issues to support in the ultimate in hypocrisy.
And as far as the drug dealer/woman beater/career criminal that overdosed in Warren last week, I stand by my words-he was a punk with a rap sheet a mile long-society is better off without him-one less lowlife on the streets.
Really, so you are a blind follower with no opinion. Representing everyone regardless of whether or not the issue is valid, just blindly go where only fools tread. Take no prisoners. Sounds like wm. Your statements that you support all union members regardless of what you really think of them is so self serving. I mean really, do you think that anybody here really cares what your opinion is. The arrogant statements that you post are so extreme they just make me want to ignore you, however, I don't mind a little exchange now and then. It helps to keep me focused on real problems.
I've tried to explain it you before Jaqdadi-I'm not much different than a criminal defense attorney-I get paid to represent ALL union members-I don't play God and pick and choose which members I want to represent. It's also not much different than a doctor that takes the Hippocratic oath-he or she doesn't decide which patients he or she is going to treat-he or she treats ALL patients, regardless of who they are, what they did, or what they stand for. Since you keep dredging it up, I'll use the example of the bum from Warren who overdosed last week-if he had been a member of my union, and had run afoul of management, and was being disciplined/terminated, while I might not condone his behavior, I would have still represented him with the same vigor that I would have used to represent a 30 year employee with a spotless personnel record that had committed an infraction. Another perfect example is Kathleen Borgia-am I not going to represent her because I let my personal feelings get in the way?-hell no-I'm going to fight just as hard for her as I fight for the union member who won "Teacher of the Year" honors for the past decade. In my business jaqdadi, you don't pick and choose who you represent based on personal opinions-you represent ALL union members. It's the way I do business, and the way I'll continue to do business.
UNION WACK JOB never there when you need him.
PROVIDENCE — Providence Fire Union president Paul Doughty has not come to work for much of the last three years, staffing what Chief George Farrell said appeared to be a no-show position in the department’s training division instead of working a fire truck.
At the same time, Doughty was making extra cash working overtime shifts to fill the vacancy created when he left his job on a special hazards truck, according to a Journal analysis of department records; Farrell said that amounted to double-billing the city.
The state police are investigating Doughty, who could face criminal charges. Two fire chiefs may be disciplined internally for failing to oversee Doughty, said Farrell, who was appointed chief of the department in May.
PAUL{UNION_TEACHER} DOUGHTY
TALK A GOOD GAME, BUT TALK IS JUST TALK
Paul Doughty
