The Elsmere man who detonated a pipe bomb at his estranged wife's home pled guilty in the United State District Court for the District of Delaware.
According to court documents, Mark Consiglio, 49, of Elsmere, detonated the bomb in Elsmere in the early morning hours of March 12, 2018 before he fled the scene. Two 911 callers described the explosion to police.
Two people were in the home at the time of the explosion, and the pipe bomb shattered the front living room window of the house, where one of the occupants was sleeping. Shrapnel from the explosion was found inside.
After he was arrested, searches of his home turned up three more pipe bombs, a .38 caliber revolver, materials used to make a pipe bomb including PVC, fuse wire, ball bearings and gunpowder.