A chemical company owner who sent residents of upper Bucks County into a panic two summers ago was sentenced to up to two years in jail and a decade on probation on Monday in a plea deal that spared him from state prison.

David Surman Jr., 32, of Quakertown, was the focus of a monthslong FBI-aided manhunt in 2018 after residents in the rural tip of the county complained of mysterious late-night explosions.

He was finally connected to the bombs — some of which left large craters along country roads — when a state trooper spotted him and his girlfriend, Tina Smith, fleeing the scene of one explosion.

Surman pleaded guilty Monday to possession and manufacturing of a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to possessing and manufacturing a weapon of mass destruction. He also pleaded guilty to criminal use of a communication facility and unlawful use of a computer for a large cache of child pornography detectives found on an external hard drive while investigating the bombs.

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Larry King, a spokesman for the DA's office, said that office is now involved with the investigation, as are the county detectives. That agency joins Pennsylvania State Police, the FBI and ATF in the investigation into the 20-plus blasts that have baffled residents since April.

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