Jersey City man charged with having explosives on train 8 days before Marathon bombings: cops

April 26, 2013

Mykyta Panasenko, 27, of Jersey City, has been charged with having explosive devices in his home and on a train in Hoboken.

More than a week before three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, a Jersey City man carried two homemade explosives on an NJ Transit train, authorities say.

Police also found explosive devices in the Newport Parkway home of Mykyta Panasenko, 27, Jersey City police said today. According to a criminal complaint, Panasenko is charged with having "two destructive devices, specifically improvised explosive devices (IEDs) constructed from a cylinder containing Pyrodex (black powder)" on April 5, the criminal complaint says.  

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