MILWAUKEE — Tipped off by an informant, police say they had a man under surveillance while he bought materials for making bombs he allegedly planned to use against drug and gang houses in his Milwaukee neighborhood.

When officers arrested 57-year-old Robert Leyer in a store parking lot, they reported finding bomb-making books and papers in his car. Now the co-owner of a Milwaukee security firm faces a charge of possessing improvised explosives.
The criminal complaint says Leyer threatened that anyone who leaked his plans would be killed and destroyed in his wood chipper.

He's quoted as telling investigators he talked about making bombs to blow up the gang houses but never intended to do it.

His preliminary hearing is scheduled next Friday.

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