Jonathan Matthew Torres, also known as the “Beaumont Bomber,” was sentenced in federal court Tuesday, more than two years after he was arrested for planting explosive devices around the city.
Torres was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield. He was found guilty last October for using an explosive device to cause property damage and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Torres —a 40-year-old divorced military veteran at the time of his arrest— was originally given three federal charges, but the charge of mailing a threatening communication was dropped at his trial hearing last fall.
In the weeks following his arrest, speculation swirled around whether an explosive device found at a postal service box on Dowlen Road and an explosion at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church was connected to the five bombings in Austin just a month earlier that claimed two lives and injured five others.
Read more: Beaumont Enterprise (Texas)
