BALTIMORE (AP) — A 32-year-old Ohio man who seriously wounded a romantic rival in Maryland by planting a homemade bomb inside a gift-wrapped box on the victim’s front porch has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.
Clayton Alexander McCoy, of Chesterland, pleaded guilty in Baltimore on Wednesday to transporting explosives with intent to injure and to possession of an unregistered firearm/explosive device in connection with the 2020 explosion at the victim’s home in Carroll County, Maryland.
He faces up to 30 years in prison when he’s sentenced.
Prosecutors say McCoy knew the victim and his girlfriend through a live action role-playing game called Dagorhir and that he expressed romantic feelings for the woman that she didn’t share.