He says he’s a “sportsman” — not a terrorist.
Aaron Greene, who was arrested with his pregnant Dalton School- grad girlfriend after cops found explosive powder, shotguns, ammo and a “Terrorist Encyclopedia” in their Greenwich Village apartment, yesterday told The Post that the bombmaking material was for an “experiment” — not a terror plot.
“It was a very small amount of experimental fireworks,” Greene, 31, said at Rikers Island, where he has been held without bail after police discovered seven grams of explosive powder HMTD in the couple’s West Ninth Street pad Saturday.
“I was going to take it out in the country and try it out — just an experiment,” said Greene.
“I’m not involved in any political causes,” said Greene. “I’m a good person, despite all that’s been said . . . I had no intention of doing damage or hurting anyone.”
But the son of prominent architectural restorer Jeff Greene was previously sentenced to a year in prison for stabbing a Lower East Side bouncer in 2005. Last year, he was sentenced to five months in jail after he and girlfriend Morgan Gliedman, 27, were spotted in a car with heroin inside, and a Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle in the trunk.
Greene said he had that gun and ones found in his apartment because “I’m a sportsman, an outdoorsman. Hunting and fishing.”
Greene also insisted that Gliedman, who gave birth to a daughter hours after their arrest, is “not involved in this.”