Engineer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Bombings of PG&E Transformers, Causing Property Damage and Widespread Power Outages

Peter Karasev, a 39-year-old engineer from San Jose, California, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for two counts of willful destruction of an energy facility. He was convicted for bombing PG&E electrical transformers in late 2022 and early 2023, causing property damage and widespread power outages.