SCOTTDALE, Pa., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania say a man unhappy with his living arrangements allegedly built a homemade bomb and set it off in the apartment building where he lived.
The New Central Hotel in Scottdale, a borough restaurant, bar and apartment complex where the man lived, was evacuated immediately after the bomb exploded Tuesday morning, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
Auston Williamson, 22, was arrested shortly after and charged with arson, risking a catastrophe, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and prohibited offensive weapons.
A police officer responding to a call of a suspicious man with a duffel bag found Williamson sitting on a railing at a convenience store near the hotel.
"He was talking to someone on a cellphone. He said, 'They are probably here to talk to me about the bomb,'" Scottdale Patrolman Matthew Zelenak said.
"He admitted he made a homemade bomb and set it off on the third floor," Zelenak said.
Williamson was being held in the Westmoreland County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.
