Alabama man charged for detonating explosive outside state AG’s office pleads guilty

An Alabama man who was charged with detonating an explosive device outside the state attorney general’s office pleaded guilty on Friday.

Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Ala., pleaded guilty in federal court to the “malicious use” of an explosive, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a release.

“This defendant built a bomb using nails and screws as shrapnel and detonated it outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, endangering a public institution and...