GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids man who was flagged by the FBI after allegedly building bombs was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison.
In July, Aaron Fein pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement. Prosecutors dismissed the other count of making a false statement.
After he serves his prison sentence, he will be on supervised release for three years.
Fein first showed up on the radar of federal authorities when he was stopped at the U.S-Canada border with a notebook containing a handwritten checklist of ingredients to build a bomb that could be remotely detonated, a federal criminal complaint shows.
Investigators say Fein told them the notebook contained “things on the internet that interested him.”