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15 Feb 2018, 11:46 pm

Teacher, brother had students help with bomb for NYC terror plot

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A former teacher and his twin brother kept more than 30 pounds of bomb-making materials in their Bronx home, along with a note suggesting they were planning to slaughter children, authorities said Thursday.

Federal officials arrested Christian and Tyler Toro, 27, in an early morning raid at their Pelham Parkway apartment and uncovered the material, along with notes and a diary referring to a plan called “Operation Code Name Flash,” cops and federal authorities said.

“Under the full moon the small ones will know terror,” read a purple index card packed inside a yellow backpack, according to a federal complaint.

The quote appears to be a reference to online conspiracy theories about CIA mind control. Police and federal officials wouldn’t comment on what it meant, what the brothers were planning or why.

We don't know at this point in the investigation...the full breath of what these materials mean,” said John Miller, the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism.

Authorities found 20 pounds of iron oxide, 5 pounds of aluminum powder, 5 pounds of potassium nitrate and 2 pounds of confectioner’s sugar, as well as a jar of explosive powder and metal fragments — all of which they said can be used to make bombs.

The raid also turned up Tyler Toro’s diary, which read, “When you find out I threw away all evidence (of Operation Code Name ‘Flash’) I could find in your room, I hope this doesn’t turn into a scene from Goodfellas,” according to the complaint.

“We are twin Toros strike us now, we will return with nano thermite,” the diary also stated.

Christian Toro, a student at Harlem Prep, allegedly paid students $50 an hour to break apart fireworks and remove the explosives inside, the feds and police sources alleged Thursday.

A Dec. 4 bomb threat by a 15-year-old student lead to the plan’s unraveling, Miller said. That student was arrested, and on Jan. 10, Christian Toro abruptly quit his job at the nonpublic school, Miller said.

Two days later, Tyler Toro returned a school-issued laptop, and a technical specialist at the school found a digital copy of a bomb-making book on it, the feds allege. The tech reported the book, sparking the probe.

“What we’re seeing here in this case already is some good people stepped forward with information — and that information was crucial to law enforcement,” Mayor de Blasio said.

Christian Toro was then arrested Jan. 31, on a third-degree rape charge after allegedly having a series of sexual encounters with a 15-year-old girl in his apartment between September 2017 and January, according to court documents.

That warranted an entry in the twin’s diary the feds discovered — “Christian arrested.”

“If you’re registered as a sex offender, things will be difficult. but I am here 100%, living, buying weapons. Whatever we need,” the diary reads, according to the complaint.

But the feds questioned students at the school on Wednesday and learned that “at least two students” went to the brothers’ home to break apart fireworks and store the explosive powder in containers.

“From what we know at this point the individuals involved have all been apprehended,” de Blasio said. “Again, this is preliminary information, but there is no additional imminent threat directed at New York City at this time."


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