Dr. Randeep Mann Is Car Bomb Suspect – Arkansas doctor and gun nut Randeep Mann is a suspect in a car bomb attack on another doctor.
Dr. Randeep Mann – previously charged with illegally owning high-explosive grenades after an ATF raid found more than $1 million worth of machine guns and ammo in his home – is now a “person of interest” in the February bombing that injured Dr. Trent Smith, the chairman of the Arkansas Medical Board.
Grover Crossland, a resident agent in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Little Rock office, said Wednesday that Dr. Randeep Mann remains “on the radar” for the unsolved bombing.
Speaking to reportres, Crossland said other doctors disciplined by the state Medical Board also remained under examination in the ATF’s investigation. However, Dr. Randeep Mann appears to be the only one arrested as their inquiry continues.
“We are looking at everybody, whether they were a doctor, family member, an employee, a neighbor, you know, whomever,” Crossland said. “Anybody who has issues with Dr. Pierce, we’re looking at them hot and heavy.”
However, much of the ATF’s attention has focused on the state Medical Board, which regulates more than 8,000 doctors, 3,000 therapists and nearly 400 osteopaths. Dr. Pierce would cast a deciding vote only when the board’s 12 other members couldn’t resolve cases — a rare occurrence.
Pierce “really doesn’t have hardly any enemies,” Crossland said. “He’s a very, very prominent doctor who is well-liked in the community.”
The state Medical Board suspended and later revoked Randeep Mann’s prescription privileges over complaints about patient deaths and allegations over pain-pill prescriptions.
Mann then sued the board, claiming that the panel is biased against him because he is a native of India and is a Hindu.
Mann was arrested after city workers taking a bathroom break in a wooded area stumbled across a plastic-wrapped canister containing rocket-propelled grenades. The rounds are designed to be fired from launchers attached to rifles.
Federal agents immediately suspected the grenades belonged to Mann, who had shown them a launcher a month earlier when they questioned him about the Pierce attack.
Agents say they found practice grenade rounds and launchers, as well as $1 million worth of machine guns while serving a search warrant at Mann’s home.
Though agents initially said some of the machine guns were unregistered, a grand jury only indicted Mann for illegally possessing the grenades. Dr. Mann, 50, has pleaded not guilty is being held without bond pending trial.
Dr. Trent Pierce was injured Feb. 4 by the blast that occurred when he reached down to move a stray tire from the path of his hybrid Lexus sport-utility vehicle. ATF agents say the bomb was homemade, not manufactured military explosives or dynamite.
Pierce has been discharged from the hospital, but lost his left eye in the explosion and can no longer hear out of his left ear. Pierce also lost his sense of smell in the blast and now suffers sinus problems.
Pierce uses a cane to walk around, but likely will be able to walk unassisted in the coming weeks and hopes of return to his medical practice in three months, he said.
And that’s the latest news on Dr. Randeep Mann is car bomb suspect.
Tags: bomb, car bomb, car bombing, randeep mann, trent smith
April 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Myself and my husband have used Dr.Mann for years now , we are elderly and believe that this is a witch hunt , He is one of the kindest most caring Dr. we have ever used ,He actually saved my husbands life in feb. of this year . Knowing Dr. Mann as we do , we know there is no way that he could have had anything to do with the bombing , He lives to save lifes and help anyone in anyway that he can
January 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
You Have to ask yourself, Why would a person, any person want or need to have 100 grenades, there is only one logical answer, to inflict harm on someone or something, Think about it!
January 7th, 2010 at 8:25 am
The term “gun nut” is not required and derogatory. Probably written by a “journalist nut” who classifies someone as a “nut” because they do not like firearms.
I suggest you not editorialize and only present the facts without denigrating someone.
I also the the two -quite different- pictures, one looks like a criminal and the other is angelic. A subtle way of pressing your point.