Manuel Garcia sentenced for leaving ‘bomb’ made of phone books outside of fed courthouse

Manuel Garcia‘s “suspicious package” will get him a home for the next 18 months.

Garcia, a 66-year-old homeless man, admitted leaving a mesh cooler with a note referencing “C-4” and claiming it

would detonate at 7 a.m. outside of the Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse in April. The courthouse was shut down so the bomb robot could investigate. Inside the cooler: a couple of Kansas City telephone books. Turns out there is a use for the phone book other than cluttering apartment hallways.