The State - News from Aug. 28, 1987

Wealthy electrical engineer Peter Pilaski, 53, was ordered by a federal magistrate in San Francisco to be held without bail on a charge of overseeing construction of a booby-trapped flower bouquet delivered to his estranged wife by his alleged homosexual lover. Melanie Pilaski and a federal building co-worker were injured. Pilaski also is accused of making and possessing the bomb, causing damage to federal property with injury, conspiracy and lying to investigators. Shaun Small, 27, has told the FBI and a grand jury that the bomb was Pilaski’s idea. Small is serving a 15-year prison term in the case.