date:Jul 11, 2012
stationed at Camp Wilson on the Twentynine Palms US Marine Corps Base in San Bernardino, Calif., when he stole a live M125 green star cluster flare.
Two years later, Popp took the flare to his parents' house in Cudahy, Wis., near the 1.5-million-sq.-ft. pork processing facility operated by Smithfield subsidiary Patrick Cudahy Inc. On July 4, Popp gave the flare to his brother Kurtis who launched it outside their parents' house. It landed on the roof of the pork processing facility, exploded and