NJ Train Explosive Arrest Made Just Days Before Boston Marathon Bombings: Man Allegedly Carried Explosives On A NJ Transit Train On April 7

NJ train explosive arrest was made, preventing a potentially deadly situation. The man arrested for carrying explosives on a NJ train was charged with having explosive material at his home and on a train just days before the Boston Marathon bombings.

Authorities said there was no indication he planned to detonate the explosive devices on NJ trains, the Jersey Journal reported on Thursday.

Mykyta Panasenko, 27, was arrested for the NJ train explosives and charged in New Jersey state court, but released Wednesday. Panasenko allegedly  carried explosives just a week before the Boston Marathon bombings that took the United States by storm. 

He was also charged with recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage to a building by constructing the devices, and with having the explosives material on April 7 aboard a NJ Transit Train leaving Hoboken, New Jersey, and bound for Suffern, New York, according to the Jersey Journal for the NJ train explosive arrest. 

"Police recovered components of an explosive device at his home, not a completed device," the statement said, according to the Jersey Journal. "However, the investigation revealed that he did transport completed devices from his home at some point."

Panasenko said in court that he had already spoken with the FBI and advised them he had no ill intent and didn't know the fireworks were illegal.

"They were fireworks," he said. "Obviously, it was a bad idea."

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 said.

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.