00:00On the evening of March the 10th, 2026, Alan Zhang planted an improvised explosive device.
00:06Often we will hear it terminology in the IED.
00:09For those who have covered bombings in the Middle East will know by that terminology.
00:14He placed it outside the visitor center at the Air Force Base in Tampa.
00:19The device did not detonate, but minutes after the device was planted,
00:24a 911 call reported that a bomb had been placed on the base.
00:30When that phone call came in, no location for that bomb was in fact given in that 911 call.
00:39The McGill personnel searched the base and the entire base and did not find the device at that time.
00:47The next day, the individual who placed that bomb, Alan Zhang and his sister,
00:52made plans to flee to China.
00:55On March 11th, Zhang and his sister purchased tickets to China
00:58and sold the vehicle that was used by the defendant, Alan Zhang,
01:03to bring the improvised explosive device from his home to the visitor center at MacDill.
01:11That before the device was, the law enforcement was brought in to take the device on March the 12th of
01:212026,
01:22Alan Zhang and his sister, Anne Mary Zhang, fled to the People's Republic of China.
01:28So by the 12th, they were gone.
01:31On the 16th of March, Air Force Base Security found the device in question, secluded.
01:38They immediately contacted law enforcement, and law enforcement, the gentlemen that you see,
01:43ladies and gentlemen that you see before you responded.
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