Alabama Man Arrested for Bombing Outside State Attorney General's Office

A 26-year-old man, Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, has been arrested and charged with detonating an explosive device outside the state attorney general’s office in Alabama. The device had characteristics of an improvised explosive device and contained nails and shrapnel. Calvert allegedly placed stickers advocating various political ideologies on state buildings on the night of the explosion. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison. The attorney general, Steve Marshall, expressed relief at Calvert's arrest and suggested that the act was not random violence.