The FBI found the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” in the bureau’s history during the arrest of a Virginia man earlier this month, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to keep the man, Brad Spafford, in custody after his Dec. 17 arrest for allegedly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. While executing a search warrant at Spafford’s 20-acre farm in the county of Isle of Wight, investigators found “a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices” that were assessed to be pipe bombs, according to prosecutors. They said some of the pipe bombs were labeled “lethal” and “preloaded into an apparent wearable vest.”
Most of the devices were allegedly found in a detached garage, while others were found in a backpack in a bedroom “completely unsecured.” Prosecutors said Spafford also “acknowledged to keeping a jar in his freezer of HMTD, an explosive material that is so unstable it can be exploded merely as a result of friction of temperature changes.” Investigators found the jar stored next to food items and labeled “dangerous” and “do not touch,” prosecutors said.
Read the rest of the story at CBS News.