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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."
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.
[A] neighbor also told authorities that Spafford was using photos of President Biden for target practice at a local shooting range. The neighbor said Spafford believed that "political assassinations should be brought back" and that "missing children in the news had been taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters."
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.
[A] neighbor also told authorities that Spafford was using photos of President Biden for target practice at a local shooting range. The neighbor said Spafford believed that "political assassinations should be brought back" and that "missing children in the news had been taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters."
