By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted a New York
man and his girlfriend following their arrest on Saturday after
police found an explosive compound, bomb-making manuals and
weapons in their Greenwich Village apartment.
Aaron Greene, 31, appeared briefly in a New York courtroom
on Friday, and was informed of the indictment by a judge. He was
returned to jail without bail.
Formal charges against Greene were set to be announced at a
Jan. 29 court appearance, when he is expected to enter a plea,
prosecutors said.
Greene's girlfriend, Morgan Gliedman, who was nine months
pregnant when she was arrested, gave birth over the weekend to a
baby girl and remained hospitalized in police custody, a law
enforcement source said.
The grand jury also indicted Gliedman, according to a law
enforcement source. It was unclear when she would be formally
arraigned.
Police received a tip about the weapons and potential
explosives from someone who had been in the couple's apartment,
a police official said. Gliedman was wanted on suspicion of
credit card theft, the official said.
Authorities, executing a search warrant of the couple's
apartment, found bomb-making instructions, including a manual
called "The Terrorist Encyclopedia", high-capacity rifle
magazines, a flare launcher, two shotguns, and a plastic bottle
containing seven grams of hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or
HMTD, court documents said.
The discovery of the HMTD, commonly used in homemade bombs,
prompted an evacuation of nearby buildings, a law enforcement
source said.
Interest in the case has been driven by the couple's
privileged background. Gliedman's father, Paul Gliedman, is
director of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Hospital in
Brooklyn, according to a second law enforcement source.
Gliedman studied creative writing at The School of The Art
Institute of Chicago, according to her Facebook page.
Greene's lawyer declined to comment on Friday, as did
Greene's parents, who were in court for their son's appearance.
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