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| FBI internet sting snares SC inmate in plot to mail bomb to ex-wife, sources say |
| By myrtlebeachonline.com- John Monk |
| Published: 07/07/2017 |
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A Lexington man serving a 50-year prison sentence for murdering his ex-wife’s father has been named as the kingpin in an alleged plot to buy a bomb on the internet and send it through the U.S. mail to kill his ex-wife. The killer, Michael James Young Jr., 31, an inmate at the S.C. Department of Corrections’ maximum security Broad River facility, was caught by a secretive FBI sting operation on the internet’s Dark Web, according to sources familiar with the case. The bomb was designed to explode when the package was opened, and plotters knew it “was not going to be a box of flowers,” according to court records. The Dark Web is the internet’s digital underbelly, where users hoping to stay anonymous can frequent black market, child pornography and other sites. In the past year, news sites have reported that the FBI used the Dark Web in a nationwide child pornography sting operation that caught 200 people. As far as is known, this case is the first in South Carolina where the FBI has used the Dark Web. Read More. |
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