‘Annoyed’ homeowner’s extreme measure to take revenge on noisy neighbor’s car revealed – after he faced criminal charges | 88I24H8 | 2024-05-12 12:08:01
'Annoyed' homeowner's extreme measure to take revenge on noisy neighbor's car revealed – after he faced criminal charges | 88I24H8 | 2024-05-12 12:08:01
AN ILL-tempered man grew tired of his neighbor's 'excessive' noise and decided to fashion a homemade explosive to their car.
The original instance happened in 2018, though he didn't go to trial until 2021.
Alexander Arsenault was at home when his neighbors, the Conways, were having a gathering in their Greenfield, Massachusetts home in December 2018.
Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division, summarized the incident as Arsenault's inability to control his temper after the Conways made "excessive" noise.
"Annoyed by what he believed to be excessive noise coming from his neighbor's home, Alex Arsenault knowingly and willingly made a homemade explosive bomb, detonated it on their property, and put his fellow citizens in fear for their lives," he told independent new station WHDH.
Arsenault claimed he had issues with them before, and their 'excessive noise' prompted him to fashion a homemade explosive device to the family's Jeep.
The explosive had a "low explosive main charge and a non-electrical fusing system," and according to tipsters who provided information to the Tribune Publishing group, Arsenault had been buying bomb-making materials before the incident.
He detonated the device on December 1, 2018, waking the Conways and other neighbors, prompting the local police to be called.
The Conways told the FBI that Arsenault had not previously threatened them with violence.
Arsenault was quickly arrested, and an investigation by the Greenfield Police Department found several materials traditionally used to make explosives, as well as a document with advice on how to answer questions from law information about the destruction of a vehicle.
Police also found firearms that were not legally registered.
Police had dealings with Arsenault before, as neighbors complained about loud noises resembling explosions.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> The outlet reported that he was arrested in January, and pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm in connection to the explosion.
His sentence happened on May 18, 2018, when Arsenault would have typically been sentenced to three or four years for incarceration.
However, the prosecution and defense agreed that court-mandated mental health treatment would be more just.
He was also ordered to pay $4,500 in restitution for damages to the Conway's Jeep.
In addition, he was not allowed to speak to those neighbors and would have to move out of the home.
Assistant US Attorney Anna Kransinski wrote in a sentencing memorandum that Arsentault's "mental health had substantially deteriorated, and he was suffering from psychotic episodes in which he irrationally believed he was being harassed."
The Conways also believed the treatment would be wiser than prosecution since being sentenced to prison would "likely increase the defendant's danger to the community rather than lessen it."
Arsenault's attorney, Behzad Mirashem, wrote in a memo that his client's mental health "markedly improved" since attending the mandated treatment.
A strong emotional support system and consistent treatment plan would not have been available to him in prison, he said.
"With proper treatment, there is no reason to expect that his conduct will be repeated," wrote Mirashem.
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