The federal trial of a Mountain Grove man accused of mailing a pipe bomb to the West Plains Police Department has been continued from January to February.
Donald W. Schamber, 60, was arrested in June for allegedly sending a pipe bomb through the mail in an attempt to implicate his ex-wife’s husband. An alert postal worker discovered the package and alerted authorities.
Schamber, 60, a southwestern Texas County resident who lived on Highway EE, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison without parole on charges of using explosive materials to commit the offense. He is also charged with mailing a destructive device with the intent to injure another person, which carries a 20-year sentence and transporting explosive materials and making a destructive device.
The trial is scheduled on the February trial docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in Springfield. Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Oliver is prosecuting the case.