Police Say They’ve Defused Bomb Ring Four Arrested After Six-Day String Of North Side Explosions

Authorities think they smashed a ring of bombers terrorizing north Spokane by arresting four men this week.

Detectives said in court documents filed Friday the men are responsible for a series of explosions on the North Side during a six-day span that began May 14.

Sheriff’s Capt. Don Manning said the four may have made the bomb found in a Coeur d’Alene park Thursday.

Some of the explosive devices the men are accused of setting off contained shrapnel, including shotgun pellets and nails, said Manning, who described them as “anti-personnel devices.”

No one was hurt in the blasts.

“People could have been injured. They did put bombs in places where they could hurt somebody,” Manning said Friday.

The men are suspected of detonating a bomb under a car in the 6600 block of North Wall and another outside a garage window in the same block.

The bomb found in Coeur d’Alene’s Winton Park was left in a gazebo.

Last week, the four suspects reportedly cruised north Spokane streets throwing small explosive devices out of their car’s sunroof, Manning said.

Sheriff’s detectives arrested three of the Spokane men Thursday. They are Joshua Glanville, 19, Adam Kulbe, 21, and Mark Schwartzenberger, 18.

Scott Bunch, 18, was arrested Tuesday after authorities raided his home at 6615 N. Post.

Glanville and Kulbe have recent criminal records in Spokane County.

Glanville, a self-proclaimed gang member with a half-dozen convictions, was arrested May 14 for punching a woman in the Valley.

Deputies reported Glanville got into a scuffle with the woman and her husband after they confronted him in a car with a naked 15-year-old girl near Opportunity Elementary School.

Glanville reportedly fought deputies trying to arrest him and was brought under control with pepper spray.

He was released from jail three days later because authorities hadn’t filed a formal complaint against him, District Court records show.

Kulbe pleaded guilty May 9 to car theft and malicious mischief in two 1995 crimes and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Kulbe was released the next day after Judge Robert Austin converted that sentence to one day in jail, 232 hours of community service and two years community supervision, court records state.

Deputies and an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found gunpowder residue and shotgun shells that had been cut open during the raid on Bunch’s house, court documents state.

They also found a copy of the book, “The Anarchist’s Cookbook,” which Manning thinks the quartet used as a bombing-making guide.

The book, first published in 1971, gives detailed instructions for making bombs and other explosives and instructs people how to use them.

“This is a brutal book - sensual, rude, coarse and cruel,” the preface states. “Professionally and painstakingly, all possible informative instructions for individual actions of destruction having a presumably social effect are detailed here.”

Manning said detectives aren’t sure why the men were making and detonating the bombs, other than to cause “fear and concern in the community.”

“I can’t give you a good motive yet,” Manning said.

“We still don’t understand it.”

The four aren’t suspects in any other recent bombings in the area, Manning added.

“We have nothing connecting them to the City Hall case,” he said.

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