![]() ![]() On clear nights, downtown's Cleveland skyline sparkles on the horizon. The parking lot gazes down at the bright lights of the massive Cinemark at Valley View movie theater. It stands on a bluff, overlooking the Cuyahoga River valley. The Garfield Heights Applebee's may have the best view of any Applebee's anywhere. "One is good to go - we just got to do this one," 20-year-old Connor Stevens replied, not knowing the big guy was wired for sound.Ī little after 9:30 that night, April 30, the six men - five anarchists and a guy one of them had met at a protest rally - rolled up to the Applebee's in Garfield Heights, ready to drink some beer, get a quick bite to eat and remotely detonate two bombs. One stood over it, while the other, kneeling, fiddled with what was inside.Ī fourth figure, much larger than the rest, stepped into the camera's view. The other two men were puzzling over a second box. He reached into the box, and a bright light flicked on. One, in a light-colored shirt and dark pants, set a small black toolbox next to the pillar. But the agents watching a video screen at the FBI's Cleveland headquarters, 14 miles away, could see the dim profiles of three men. ![]() The camera's live feed kept pausing, interrupted by the storm. Its seven arches curved above them, holding up a roadway a fifth of a mile long.Ī night vision camera stood guard, waiting. The other four approached one of the giant concrete pillars holding up the 145-foot-tall Route 82 bridge. Rain soaked the clothes of the six figures walking through the pitch-black Cuyahoga Valley National Park.Īcross the river from the scenic railroad's Brecksville station, where the Towpath Trail forks around a last remnant of the Ohio & Erie Canal, two of the men stopped to act as lookouts. Business Hall of Fame and Community Leader of the Year Awards. ![]()
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