MELBOURNE - A couple has been charged with planting four pipe bombs: one at a Cape Canaveral post office and three in a former co-worker's car.
Michael Jay, 43, and Dawn Jay, 39, were arrested in a incident that prompted the post office's daylong evacuation Sept. 11.
The Port St. Johns couple targeted the former co-worker because they wanted to get him in trouble, said Ed Moffitt, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Orlando. They had been on the job together at a casino cruise line for less than a year, he said.
The first of the devices was found Sept. 11 inside an envelope in the post office's drop box. Similar devices were found later that day in the former co-worker's car, parked at his warehouse business.
The Jays were arrested Thursday and Friday and charged with manufacturing and possession of a firearm. They were ordered into federal custody in Orlando with no bail pending a hearing today.
