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Buffalo man sentenced to probation for throwing partial pipe bomb through window of Eden home

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced 41-year-old Adam A. Jones was sentenced Thursday morning before State Supreme Court Justice Betty Calvo-Torres to three years of probation.

The district attorney's office said that around 3 a.m. on March 28, 2022, Jones threw a partially completed pipe bomb through the front window of a home on Hillbrook Drive in Eden. Police said the incident occurred at the home of former Eden Town Supervisor Melissa Hartman.

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Jones was arraigned on related charges in December 2022 and pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree attempted placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in March 2023.

A final no-contact order of protection was issued on behalf of the victims and remains in effect for the next five years.

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