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Ukrainian Rutgers student arrested taking two IEDs into New York just a week before Boston Marathon bombing 

• Eight days before the Boston Marathon bombing, police in New Jersey arrested a man traveling into New York with two homemade devices
• Rutgers student Mykyta Panasenko lived in Jersey City, but was originally from the Ukraine
• He has been ' recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage'
• His arrest only became public knowledge on Wednesday after appeared in court

By PAUL THOMPSON IN BOSTON, JAMES NYE and DAVID MCCORMACK

PUBLISHED: 20:00 EST, 25 April 2013 | UPDATED: 20:09 EST, 25 April 2013

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Just eight days before three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, a Ukrainian student was arrested in New Jersey carrying two homemade devices.

Rutgers student Mykyta Panasenko, 27, was arrested in Hoboken on April 7 aboard a NJ Transit train bound for Suffern, New York. He was carrying two improvised explosive devices, according to police. 

Jersey City Police Deputy Chief Peter Nalbach said Thursday that authorities also found material at Panasenko's home ‘that may have been used to make an explosive device.’ 

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Just days before the Boston Marathon, Rutgers student Mykyta Panasenko, 27, was arrested with two devices aboard a NJ Transit train bound for New York

According to a criminal complaint, Panasenko is charged with having 'two destructive devices, specifically improvised explosive devices (IEDs) constructed from a cylinder containing Pyrodex (black powder)' on April 5, the criminal complaint says.

He is also charged with ‘recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage to a building which normally contains 25 or more persons by constructing the explosive devices,’ reports the Jersey Journal. 

 

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The charges were filed by the FBI and the Port Authority Police Department.

According to Panasenko's Facebook page, he lived in Jersey City but is originally from Kiev, Ukraine. 

And according to Pansasenko's LinkedIn page, he attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and lists his current job as a mathematician at Mahwah-based High 5 Games, a game creator in the casino industry.

Originally from the Ukraine, Panasenko has been charged with 'recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage to a building which normally contains 25 or more person.'

His arrest wasn't reported by authorities at the time, but became public after he appeared in Hudson County Court on Wednesday.

News of the arrest comes after revelations that the Tsarnaev brothers, the two suspects in the Boston bombings, had also planned to set off bombs in Manhattan.