Pair of Clearfield County Men Charged in Connection with Targeted Bombing Resulting in Death of Victim Who Owed One Defendant Drug Debt
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Two residents of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Clint Addleman, 47, and Kris Joseph Nevling, 47, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of conspiracy to maliciously destroy property by explosive or fire and possession of an unregistered destructive device, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Addleman is also charged with malicious destruction of property by explosive or fire resulting in death, and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The four-count Superseding Indictment was returned today against Addleman of Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, and Nevling, of Houtzdale, Pennsylvania.According to the Superseding Indictment, Addleman was a drug dealer operating in and around Clearfield, Pennsylvania, who obtained large quantities of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, from one or more sources of supply and sold and redistributed the methamphetamine to his customers, including co-defendant Nevling and a Clearfield resident identified as S.L.C. In and around the summer of 2019, Addleman “fronted” several hundred dollars’ worth of methamphetamine to S.L.C.—i.e., he provided the drugs to S.L.C. without an upfront payment. As alleged, S.L.C. did not repay the drug debt owed to Addleman during the following months. On multiple occasions, Addleman allegedly threatened violence against S.L.C. in connection with her failure to repay him.
The Superseding Indictment further alleges that, in and around early October 2019, Nevling and Addleman aided and abetted each other in the construction and possession of a destructive device—a bomb—which was subsequently concealed inside a package addressed to S.L.C. using her nickname. In the early morning hours of October 4, 2019, the package containing the bomb, pictured below, was delivered to a multi-unit rental property in Clearfield, where S.L.C. rented an apartment on the first floor.
Image of package that contained bomb
Later that morning, the bomb detonated inside S.L.C.’s apartment, killing S.L.C. and causing significant damage to the property, including by fire. A picture of the building after the fire was extinguished appears below:
Image of building after bomb
As alleged, Clint Addleman and Kris Joseph Nevling were responsible for building a bomb that was used to murder one of Addleman’s methamphetamine customers and almost completely leveled the building where she lived,” said U.S. Attorney Olshan. “This conduct—involving lethal retaliation over nothing more than an outstanding drug debt—shocks the conscience and has no place in our communities or anywhere else. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our law enforcement partners in our shared commitment to investigate and prosecute those whose conduct presents such a clear and present danger to others, whether in the form of distributing illegal drugs, building and detonating deadly bombs, or, in this case, both.”
“Our ATF Special Agents worked tirelessly alongside our federal, state, and local partners to seek justice in this brutal murder case,” said Eric DeGree, Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Philadelphia Field Office. “The perpetrators tried to hide their crime through
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