Homeless man charged in synagogue bombing

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(CNN) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 60-year-old homeless man on charges that he set off a bomb outside a southern California synagogue in April, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Ron Hirsch was arrested in Ohio following the April 7 bombing at Chabad House in Santa Monica, California. The blast shattered windows outside the suburban Los Angeles building and launched a chunk of concrete and steel pipe into the roof of a home next door, but caused no injuries.

The four-count indictment charges Hirsch with posessing and using an explosive device to damage property, to commit a federal felony and to commit a violent crime, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. He would face 45 to 70 years in prison if convicted on those charges, prosecutors said.

Police said Hirsch -- who also used the names Ronald Jay Fisher and Israel Fisher -- had been known to panhandle outside synagogues. No motive was immediately disclosed.

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