Say they not only found bomb-making materials but a detailed journal outlining that school bomb plot. so scary. the 17-year-old suspect is behind bars. as prosecutors decide now whether he ll be charged as an adult. abc s yunji de nies is in tampa with the very latest. reporter: police say jared cano detailed his murder plot down to the minute in a manifesto, mapping out where he would plant a series of bombs. his target 30 students and 2 administrators. we were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa have not seen, and hopefully never will. reporter: working off a telephonontip, investigators headed to cano s home. inside they found all the elements to make pipe bombs, shrapnel, plastic tubing, accelerants, fuses and timers. the 17-year-old s facebook page boasts pictures of him with machetes, malt liquor and marijuana. last friday he wrote, a crazy
Wouldn t be looking to go spend ten days on okay. that wasn t the dad. do we have him? okay. we don t have him. let s go to mark potter with the latest on the bomb plot. reporter: police say in this quiet apartment complex in north tampa, they found enough bomb-making material, including shrapnel, to kill a lot of people. we were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. reporter: arrested on felony bomb charges is 17-year-old jared cano, who was expelled from tampa s freedom high school last year for inappropriate behavior. on his facebook page, he lists one of his favorite quotes as lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten. police say in his journal they found schematic drawings of the school and learned that he planned to set up bombs throughout freedom high next tuesday, when classes began.
In his room. they also found a journal that contained names of administrators that he wanted to kill police said they found all of these things inside that apartment. the chief of the tampa. police department joining us from tampa. what can you tell us about the 17-year-old suspect? well, he s a former student at freedom high school and he had been expelled in the past and we were fortunate enough to receive an anonymous tip that led us to jared cano and his apartment and we were able to take him into custody and confiscate those materials that he was going to use to build these destructive devices and plant them in the high school. we re also learning a little bit more about cano s criminal past. what can you tell us about that? well, he s been arrested by the tampa police department. he s no stronger to us. he s been arrested for some property crimes and he also was arrests for breaking into a
Rob and diana? a lot of tough rhetoric out there on the campaign trial. michele bachmann, one of the more vocal gop contenders. she doesn t bite her tongue at all. she s saying she has her own economic plan. basically hers is calling for fewer regulations, less spending and lower taxes. that s the opposite of what the president wants. he says we need to increase taxes, particularly for the wealthiest americans. so much divide out there. key political buzz words during a tough time in campaigning and you say those buzz words and people listen. everyone votes with their wallet, right? we ll see. well, not the kind of back to school story you want to hear. friends say the tampa teenager charged in the bomb plot didn t know how to control his anger. they say jared cano was just venting when he wrote a detailed plan to attack the school. that s not what police believe. as tampa s wfts repopos, the suspect has been in trouble before.
But first, thoh, we begin with those chilling new details about that plan to carry out a mass murder at a tampa high school. police y the suspect is a deeply troubled teenager who had been expelled from the school. t.j. winick is joining us with more information about that suspect. t.j.? reporter: rob and diana, good morning. a tampa teenager stands accused of trying to plot a columbine-style school massacre. his plan was to be carried out on the first day of the school year. another columbine, that s what tampa police believe they ve prevented by stopping 17-year-old jared cano, arraigned in court. we were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen. reporter: according to authorities, cano wrote a manifesto that detailed minute by minute his plans for an attack on tampa s freedom high school, starting at 5:00 a.m. next tuesday. i think most people are going to be, like, scared. a lot of people might not even sh