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Times Square Bomber Shahzad's Connecticut House to Be Sold in Foreclosure
The Connecticut home of Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty last month to trying to detonate a car bomb in New York’s Times Square in May, will be sold in a public foreclosure auction.
Shahzad’s former home in Shelton, a city of about 38,000 people about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northeast of Manhattan, will be auctioned off tomorrow starting at noon, according to a Connecticut state court filing.
The Pakistani native bought the 1,356-square-foot, three- bedroom Colonial in 2004 for $273,000, and added his wife’s name to the deed in 2007, according to the Shelton assessor’s office. The home is assessed at about $243,000, according to property website Trulia.com.
Shahzad left Connecticut in June 2009 for Pakistan, and his wife and two children followed him, he told a U.S. district judge while pleading guilty last month. Chase Home Finance sued him and his wife for foreclosure in September, and the court on May 28 ordered the house sold at auction, court records show.
Shahzad told the judge he returned to the U.S. in February and rented a home in Bridgeport, about nine miles southwest of Shelton, where he made the bomb that he drove into Times Square on May 1.
The vehicle, containing an improvised bomb, was found smoking on the street. Shahzad was arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 3 after boarding a flight to Dubai and pleaded to 10 terrorism-related charges. He faces a mandatory life term at his sentencing Oct. 5.
The criminal case is U.S. v. Shahzad, 10-00928, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Dolmetsch in New York at cdolmetsch@bloomberg.net.
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