The couple had monthly expenses of $2,885, and a monthly combined income of $2,842. The Powers had $8,197 in assets and $44,881 in liabilities, primarily to creditors and for medical bills, according to the bankruptcy filing.Īt the time, Stephen Powers was employed as a clerk in a 7-Eleven for six months, while Tiffany Powers had been working for two years at Tidewater Physicians Multispec Group in Newport News. In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, debtors are required to turn over their nonexempt property to a trustee, who sells the assets and uses the money to pay off creditors. bankruptcy court in Newport News in February 2014. Powers and his wife, Tiffany Lynn Powers, filed for and received Chapter 7 bankruptcy from U.S. The terrorism charge, according to Riley, is the first that he can recall in his 27 years with the Williamsburg Police Department. He is charged with possessing and using an explosive device and committing an act of terrorism following the detonation of an improvised explosive device, Riley said. He will have another hearing in the same court at 2 p.m. Powers was denied bond in a Monday morning hearing in Williamsburg-James City County General District Court. The following day, investigators interviewed Powers at his home and found evidence of bomb-making materials, the criminal complaint states. Powers told investigators he had been traveling past Williamsburg on the Colonial Parkway on his way to pick up his wife at about 3:30 p.m. The day before the blast, Powers reported receiving another letter in the mail. 17, two days before the explosion, Powers was told by superiors not to report to work. "It is very unlikely that anyone other than Powers created the second letter since according to Powers, the only person who knows the significance of the word 'Adramelech' served with him in Iraq," the complaint states. Thursday in a parking lot located at the intersection of South Boundary Street and Francis Street near Merchants Square. An improvised explosive device was detonated around 5 p.m. Greg Riley talked to the media Friday afternnon about the IED explosion near Colonial Williamsburg. 12, the Williamsburg Police Department was dispatched to the area behind Chico's Powers was again at the scene and told police he found a handwritten note on the outside door that leads to the maintenance office which said, "I'm sorry my device did not work last night. Powers told a fire department official he was checking the boilers in the Block 23 building, and a Chico's employee asked him to check an odor in the basement.Ī day later, on Oct. The area was searched, but nothing of importance was found, the document states. for the smell of sulfur, the criminal complaint states.įirefighters found a haze outside the building. 11, eight days before the detonation, the Williamsburg Fire Department and Colonial Williamsburg responded to the maintenance office in a basement below Chico's at 422 W. The investigation into Powers appears to have begun more than a week before the blast, according to the criminal complaint. 16 at the Bass Pro Shop in Hampton while he was with his one-and-a-half-year-old son. Powers bought some materials used them to make the device - including three plastic jars of Benchmark Smokeless powder - at 3:30 p.m. Police said in the complaint that the pipe bomb appeared to have been placed in the mulch beneath a tree in the parking lot.
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