Patrick Michael Wagner, 37, Minot, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison, with a requirement that he serve five years, and three years of supervised probation for setting off a pipe bomb on April 7, 2019 in rural Minot.

Wagner pleaded gulity to endangerment by explosion, a Class B felony, and to Clss C felony possession of a bomb.

On the B felony charge, Judge Stacy Louser also ordered Wagner to pay $775 in court costs and reserved restitution in the matter for 90 days.

Louser sentenced Wagner to five years in prison and three years of supervised probation, concurrent with the sentence on the B felony, for the charge of possession of a bomb.

In court on Monday, Wagner apologized for his “ignorant and stupid” actions, which he knows could have injured someone. Louser said his actions were far more than ignorant and stupid.

A Ward County sheriff’s deputy spotted a fire in a roadside ditch at 55th Street NE in the area of 19th Street NE late on the afternoon. The deputy spotted Wagner’s 1990s model GMC Sierra pickup leaving the scene of the fire. She then turned around and heard an explosion from the fire. Minot Rural Fire Department put out the fire.

Wagner had purchased galvanized pipe at Menards and a one-pound container of gun powder at Scheels and had been staying with the owner of the pickup.