Police Track Down Santa Monica Pipe Bomber

The FBI was finally able to track down the man responsible for setting a small explosion outside a Santa Monica synagogue last week.

The suspect, 60-year-old Ron Hirsch, was considered to be extremely dangerous until his apprehension. The authorities were able to track him down to a location in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The day of the incident they started tracking him after he is thought to have used one of his aliases - "Israel Fisher or J. Fisher" - to purchase a Greyhound ticket to New York. 

Since there are at least ten destinations between Los Angeles and New York, the agents started surveiling all of the spots. They were lucky when an agent spotted him getting off the bus in Denver, where he went to the ticket counter and purchased another ticket going eastbound. 

The blast affected the Chabad House Lubavitch on 17th Street. Initially police thought that it was an industrial accident, but later realized that actually was a pipe bomb.

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