Incarcerated man sentenced to 80 years for making and mailing bombs from prison

STATESBORO, Ga. (WRDW/Gray News) – A man in a Georgia state prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for creating and mailing destructive devices while incarcerated.

Investigators found evidence that revealed 57-year-old David Dwayne Cassady built and mailed two bombs to the United States Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, and to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

According to the United States Department of Justice, Cassady was imprisoned at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville when he built and sent those bombs. Georgia State Prison closed in 2022.

“This defendant’s devices were not only a threat to the recipients, but to every individual that unknowingly transported and delivered them,” U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling for the District of South Carolina said.

Neither of the two bombs exploded.

Cassady pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted malicious use of explosive materials.

He was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment on both counts to run consecutively, to be followed by a five-year term of court-ordered supervision.

Cassady has a long criminal record dating back to the late 1980s.

Georgia prison records show he began serving his most recent stretch of prison time back in 1993 on charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy.

He was also convicted of terroristic threats and acts, gang participation and conspiracy while in prison back in 2019.