Nederland, town in Colorado. This was to atone for a killing back in 1971, see story. The "STP" family.
Former hippie with 45-year grudge left highly volatile — and lethal — bomb at Nederland police station, FBI agents testify
By Kirk Mitchell | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: October 31, 2018 at 1:29 pm | UPDATED: October 31, 2018 at 6:05 pm
The homemade device that a man who allegedly carried a 45-year grudge left in front of the Nederland police station in 2016 was crafted with a highly unstable explosive compound that could have been lethal, FBI bomb experts testified in federal court Wednesday.
The testimony by FBI bomb technicians Garrett Gumbinner and Raleigh Parrott came during the opening of a two-day sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Denver for David Michael Ansberry, 66, who previously pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to ignite a weapon of mass destruction. Ansberry admitted he planted an explosive device at the station.
Ansberry built a bomb capable of demolishing the Nederland police station in order to avenge the vigilante killing of a fellow member of a 1970s-era hippie gang called the STP Family, according to court records. In 1971, Nederland Marshal Renner Forbes killed Guy “Deputy Dawg†Gaughnor. Forbes confessed to the killing in 1997, three years before his death. He wasn’t prosecuted.
Read more at: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/31/nederland-police-station-bombing-sentencing/
There's actually, a lot on this "STP Family" on the web,
More reading:
https://caelumetterra.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/sagittarius-tranquility-and-yes-persistence/Allegedly, moving en masse from NYC to Boulder, Colo. Boulder has always had a reputation for having a lot of hippie types like a few other places. I'm not very familiar with these people. Something brought vigilante justice on them apparently. The article above does say, versus the reputation of other "hippies", they had a reputation for violence, so that explains things some.
