Two Pennsylvania men charged with drug money after deadly ‘targeted bombing’

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Two Clearfield County men have been charged in connection with a deadly “targeted bombing” involving drug money in 2019, authorities said.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced in a press release Tuesday that Clint Addleman and Kris Joseph Nevling were indicted by a grand jury in federal court in Johnstown on charges including conspiracy to maliciously destroy property by explosive or fire and possession of an unregistered explosive device. Addleman is also charged with malicious destruction of property by explosive or fire resulting in death and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

The charges stem from a bomb attack that killed Shanna Carlson in her Clearfield home on October 4, 2019, CBS affiliate WTAJ-TV reported.

Tuesday's news release, citing the indictment, said Addleman was a drug dealer who supplied Carlson with “several hundred dollars worth of methamphetamine” without payment up front. Authorities said the victim did not repay the money and Addleman allegedly threatened the woman with violence because she did not pay.

In October 2019, the indictment said Addleman and Nevling helped each other build and possess a bomb. The device was allegedly delivered in a package to Carlson's apartment and later exploded, killing the woman and destroying the apartment building.

Both men face life sentences in connection with the charges. Addleman is currently in prison on other charges, while Nevling remains incarcerated on other charges related to the incident.

“As alleged, Clint Addleman and Kris Joseph Nevling were responsible for building a bomb that murdered one of Addleman's methamphetamine clients and almost completely leveled the building in which she lived,” Eric Olshan, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, said in a news release Tuesday. “This conduct – deadly retaliation for nothing more than an outstanding drug debt – shocks the conscience and has no place in our communities or anywhere else.”