FBI says it seized largest cache of homemade explosives in its history at Virginia home

Washington — 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." ---More...

FBI finds ‘largest ever explosive cache’ on a Virginia farm

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