Boguslawski pleaded guilty in April to possession of nine fully-assembled unregistered destructive devices and four unregistered destructive devices consisting of component parts, designed and intended for use in conversion into bombs, and from which bombs could be readily assembled. He admitted in his plea agreement that he had the component parts to assemble 20 more destructive devices in his Indiana home.
"Boguslawski's bomb-builder lifestyle presents an extreme danger to the public," Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dana Peters and Salvador Dominguez told the court prior to sentencing.
A destructive device is an explosive device that is capable of causing property damage and personal injury and/or death to persons near the explosion. Federal law requires that destructive devices be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
Boguslawski was charged in Madison County on state charges. Those charges have been dismissed. He was charged by a federal complaint on March 3.
Boguslawski lived in Fairborn. He graduated from Wright State in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership.
In June, his attorney, Steve Nolder, said Bogulsawski acknowledged his recklessness in transporting the devices.
Boguslawski was previously a member of the Ohio National Guard, according to the Indiana National Guard. From April 2007-2010 he worked as a groundskeeper at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana, which provides training for all military branches and first-responders. He then completed military intelligence training and was assigned as an intelligence analyst with a reconnaissance unit before transferring to the Indiana National Guard Medical Discharge Unit in November. His security clearance has been suspended pending the outcome of the case, according to officials with the Guard.
Carter M. Stewart, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Michael Boxler, Special Agent in Charge, Columbus Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Ohio Fire Marshal Larry Flowers, Ohio Highway Patrol Superintendent Paul Pride and Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen J. Pronai announced the sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James L. Graham.
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