Joseph Rizos, of suburban Denville, allegedly hatched a years-long sinister scheme that started in April 2020 where he bought highly explosive materials (https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/molotov-cocktails-hurled-at-nyc-house-but-mystery-attackers-cooked-up-duds-cops/) — including fuels, fuses and chemicals — and lab equipment from various online stores, illegally keeping them in his home.
The 37-year-old was charged with unlawful receipt of explosive materials, unlawful storage of explosive material and unlawful possession of plastic explosives without a detection agent on Wednesday, the US Attorney’s Office announced (https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/morris-county-man-charged-unlawfully-possessing-and-storing-explosives-and-explosive).
Morris County investigators stormed his 1,920-square-foot home on June 24 after Rizos was detained from his car.
“At the residence, investigators uncovered a home laboratory along with a cache of explosive precursors commonly used to make [homemade explosives],” the Morris County’s Prosecutor’s Office (https://www.facebook.com/MorrisCountyProsecutor/posts/morris-county-law-enforcement-seize-a-large-quantity-of-homemade-destructive-dev/1447116760783312/) wrote at the time.
“Also seized were blasting caps, cell phones, and various firearms and ammunition.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/29/us-news/nj-maniac-accused-of-making-109-bombs-in-home-lab-feds
Explosives are not very good at sabotage. They are effective in surprise attacks, assassination and in logistics disruption, but not sabotage itself.
Poison and chemical attacks are much better weapon as they cause a lot more long term damage, are harder to track and they might even not be obvious immediately, which causes them to be a lot deadlier long-term - plus the fear/paranoid effect is a weapon in itself.
