SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Washington man accused of placing a bomb along the planned route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane.
The grand jury indictment returned Tuesday charges 36-year-old Kevin Harpham (har’-pum) with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and unauthorized possession of an unregistered explosive device. Harpham is scheduled to appear Wednesday before a federal magistrate.
Harpham is from Addy, a town north of Spokane, and has extensive ties to white supremacist groups.
He is represented by federal public defender Roger Peven, who tells The Spokesman-Review it’s a serious case that he’s looking forward to working on.
