NY teen blew up portable toilet with homemade bomb: cops

A Yonkers teen busted for blowing up a portable toilet admitted he used homemade bombs to unleash a series of explosions across the Westchester County city, cops said.

The unidentified 14-year-old boy was cuffed after investigators found the local teen had been constructing devices similar to the one that blasted apart a portable toilet inside Bregano Park last week, Yonkers police said.

Authorities said they took the pubescent demolitionist into custody without incident and searched the teen’s residency, where they discovered “materials used to manufacture explosives.” 

The young bomber later admitted to being involved with at least two other incidents, authorities said.

“The teen admitted to constructing the device used in the incident and to being responsible for several other explosions in the area over the last several weeks,” cops said in a press release. 

The teen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. 

The porta-potty blast on April 6 rocked a quiet neighborhood, shocking locals.

“I was sitting in the living room, and I went, ‘Oh my god.’ The whole floor shook. And then my neighbors, you know, and everybody were just talking about it,” local resident Maria Sigismondo told WABC at the time. 

The blast drew together the investigative efforts of Yonkers Police Department Intelligence Unit, the Westchester County Police Hazardous Devices Unit and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, who caught the teen. 

Yonkers residents said that they’d heard explosions for weeks – with the toilet bomb coming with the loudest boom. 

“At first, we thought it was like fireworks. Then it got louder and bigger, but last night was really big,” local Kenny Reyes told WABC at the time. 

No injuries have been reported as a result of the bombs, authorities said.