Busted in bid for redo of ’95 Okla. City plot

A HIGH SCHOOLfootball player came to his mother’s defense, choking to death her ex-boyfriend after he attacked her in their Bronx apartment early Monday, sources said.

Luis Moux, 18, was in his bedroom at 4:30 a.m. when his 37-year-old mother and her ex were arguing in the hallway outside the University Heights apartment, where the boyfriend showed up to talk to her.

When the mother retreated into her apartment, the 43-yearold man, Stanley Washington, followed and began beating her, sources said.

Moux, a 220-pound offensive lineman on his high school football team, came rushing out and pulled the man off his mother, Lorena Sesma. As the two were struggling, the teen wrapped his arm around Washington’s neck.

It was unclear if Washington was strangled while the teen was pulling him off his mother or after.

Sesma briefly passed out, sources said, and awoke to find her son standing over her ex. Sources said the teen and Washington are about the same size.

Moux was taken into custody and questioned by police. He hadn’t been charged by late Monday, in a case that could range from manslaughter to self-defense.

“It’s not crystal clear,” a police source said. “It’s not cut and dry. There was a battle going on back and forth. It could be selfdefense, but that hasn’t been decided yet.”

A friend of the teen’s said Sesma THE FBI has arrested a man who planned to rip open Oklahoma City’s scars by re-creating the 1995 domestic terrorism attack that killed 168 people, authorities said Monday.

Jerry Varnell (photo), 23, of Sayre, Okla., was mad at the government and had plans to set off what he believed to be an explosive-filled stolen van outside BancFirst in Oklahoma City, a federal complaint filed Sunday states.

“He wanted to replicate the Oklahoma City bomb,” Raul Bujanda, an FBI agent, said at a press conference Monday, according to KOCO-TV.

Of the 168 who died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, 19 were children. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the attack and executed in 2001.

Varnell was communicating with an undercover FBI agent , according to authorities, and in one text message said he was “out for blood.”

On Friday, Varnell secured the “explosive,” assembled it and loaded it into a van, according to court papers. He then drove from El Reno to BancFirst in Oklahoma City and dialed a cell phone number early Saturday that he thought would detonate the payload.

Instead, he was arrested and charged with attempted destruction of a building in interstate commerce. If convicted, Varnell faces 20 years in prison. A 70-YEAR-OLD retired correction officer was shot in the leg fighting off two robbers who tried to stick up his gas station Monday in Brooklyn, police sources said.

The two robbers walked up to the Sunoco Gas Station on Throop and Gates Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 1:30 p.m., and tried to rob the workers there at gunpoint.

Farmer, the station’s owner and a retired city correction officer, fired at the robbers. It’s not clear if he struck either, police said.

Medics took the wounded Farmer to Kings County Hospital, sources said. He’s expected to survive.

The robbers fled east on Gates Ave. Police sources described both as black men, one wearing a red shirt and the other wearing a white shirt and black pants.