MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Correctional deputies had been holding Paul Koch without bond for two murders after a bar fight in Redland when he appeared in Miami-Dade County Court on Friday to face 71 more charges.
Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a case against Koch, who turns 63 on Saturday, for 71 counts of third-degree felony making, possessing, or throwing of a destructive device, court records show.
Prosecutors had already filed a case against Knoch on March 4 on two counts of second-degree murder. Deputies arrested him on March 3 after the fight and fatal shooting on March 2 at Club Glades, at 18401 SW 256 St.
The murder victims were Eduardo ”Eddie” Pirez, who worked as a bartender at Club Gales, and was 38, and Marc Hess, a musician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who died at 45 years old, records show.
On Aug. 14, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Koch’s house on Aug. 14, along Southwest 284 Street, near 137 Court, in the area of the Homestead Air Reserve Base, records show.
Koch’s son reported his father had kept 71 PVC cylinder pipe-style explosives and firearms in several grade ammunition boxes labeled “explosives” or “smoke” in the house, records show.
M-DSO deputies with the bomb squad and arson units, and federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Homeland Security also responded, records show.
A Miami-Dade Fire Department investigator also responded. Deputies also found items that can be used to manufacture destructive devices, according to a M-DSO deputy’s re-arrest report.
The deputy’s list included ammonia nitrate in two 5-pound bags and two 10-pound bags, and about 6 pounds of rifle powder, fire-starting magnesium, records show.
A judge set his bond for the explosives case on Friday at $355,000. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques is set to preside over both cases.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
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