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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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1 8 - 0 5 - 2 0 0 7 Complaint details homemade bomb case
By Dan Benson
West Bend - A Town of Polk man charged Wednesday with manufacturing bombs in his home invited a friend to watch him explode one of the devices and asked whether the friend wanted to see "the big one or the small one" blow up, according to a criminal complaint filed in Washington County Circuit Court.
Detectives found 20 foot-long, 1.25-inch-wide aluminum pipes at the home of Donald J. Vander Bloomen, 26, who has been charged with possessing homemade bombs, for which he could be sentenced to six years in prison if convicted.
The friend videotaped Vander Bloomen igniting an aluminum pipe bomb by using a syringe to inject a liquid into the pipe, the complaint says.
After two tries, a large flame shot out of the pipe, which fell over without exploding, according to the compaint.
Vander Bloomen was charged Wednesday after three homemade bombs, one already exploded, were found Monday in the backyard of the duplex at 3723 Highway 60, about a mile east of Slinger, where he lives.
On May 8, members of Washington County's Multi-Jurisdictional Anti-Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at the residence and found what a Sheriff's Department news release described as a "clandestine laboratory."
According to the search warrant, detectives were seeking evidence that drugs were being manufactured there. Other materials used for making bombs also were found at the home, including aluminum powder, brake fluid and acetone, the complaint says. Items seized at the home included computers and computer equipment, syringes, vials and bottles -- many of them unlabeled -- containing various liquids, pastes and powders.
On those that did have labels, some read "drostanolone propionate" and "testosterone propionate," which are anabolic steroids used by body builders.
Investigators said the lab was not a methamphetamine laboratory.
Vander Bloomen told investigators that he made the bombs found on Monday, the complaint says.
Vander Bloomen was not in custody as of this morning. A warrant was issued Wednesday for his arrest.
Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said it appeared the lab was used for making explosives and steroids. Materials from the lab and the bombs have been sent to the State Crime Laboratory for analysis.
Martens said it's likely more charges will be filed against Vander Bloomen, pending the outcome of the crime lab analysis.
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