Alexander Ciccolo in 2012 The FBI have arrested the son of a Boston Police captain on weapons charges on the Fourth of July after threatening to use pressure-cooker bombs and guns on an unidentified university. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, is the son of Boston Police captain Robert Ciccolo, police confirmed. The investigation says that Ciccolo, who calls himself Abu Ali al-Amriki and who neighbors reportedly said is a recent convert to Islam, intended to construct bombs using pressure cookers, like those used in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, to stage an attack somewhere in the United States inspired by ISIS ideology. “What I am gonna do is prepare fire bombs. I’ll do that today. T[hey] are cheap and effective,” Ciccolo said in a July 2 instant message to the witness, according to the FBI. “You get the rifles. I’ll get the powder.” WalMart receipts show he purchased a pressure cooker on July 3 in North Adams, the complaint says. When the FBI s...
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