Authorities: Man bombed PG&E transformers in South San Jose

Police block off the road so the hazardous incident team can investigate in a neighborhood across the street from Gunderson High School in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) 

SAN JOSE — A man whose home continued Friday to be the site of a lengthy police search by bomb squad technicians, hazmat teams and federal agents has been charged with bombing two PG&E electrical transformers in South San Jose at the turn of the new year.

One of the damaged transformers was in front of the Macy’s department store at Westfield Oakridge Mall, according to the charges.

Peter Karasev, 36, of San

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