Bomb building Toro brothers
sentenced to several years in jail
BY ALEX MITCHELL
Christian and Tyler Toro, the twin
Pelham Parkway brothers who manipulated
middle school students to pull
apart fi reworks so they could create explosives
for unknown purposes in 2018
were sentenced to jail in May.
Law enforcement recovered a
jar of explosive powder and a
box of fi recrackers from among
over 30 pounds of explosive
materials.
Christian was sentenced to 70
months in prison with an additional
three years of supervised release on
Wednesday, May 22. Meanwhile Tyler,
who allegedly took a more secondary
role in the plot was sentenced to only
three years in prison on Wednesday,
May 29.
While the brothers weren’t charged
with terrorism, they did plead guilty
to stockpiling explosive materials and
manufacturing a destructive device after
the FBI and NYPD raided the brothers’
apartment 4C at 2121 Matthews Avenue
in February 2018.
Law enforcement recovered a jar
of explosive powder and a box of fi recrackers
from among over 30 pounds
of explosive materials like gasoline and
Styrofoam. That raid occurred after a
bomb-making manual was found downloaded
onto Christian’s work computer
from Harlem Prep High School, where
he was dismissed for alleged sexual
misconduct with a 15-year old female
student.
Law enforcement also found notecards
and cryptic messages that had
apparent connections to an online, ‘alternate
reality game’ that contained
themes and messages of serial killers,
the Finder’s Cult, child abuse, torture,
cannibalism, worship of the Roman
god Saturn, coding, MK-Ultra government
mind control and other conspiracy
theories, which allegedly served as
inspiration for the Toro brothers to create
‘Operation Flash,’ which was a plot
to detonate the explosives they had concocted,
police say. Christian Toro. File Photo Tyler Toro. File Photo
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