Mystery deepens as to why it took FBI over 5 years to finally bust the suspected J6 pipe bomber

Surveillance video allegedly spotted DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. planting the devices the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. FBI

The arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber just lumps mystery on top of mystery.

What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that suspect Brian Cole Jr., is a black, 30-year-old loner who lives in his mom’s basement in the middle-class suburb of Woodbridge, Va., a 20-minute drive from Washington, DC. According to his family, he is borderline autistic, and incapable of such a crime.

In interviews, Cole’s grandmother, Loretta Cole, has said he is “very naïve . . . He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff.

“He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old.”

Yet we are