1. At his house, agents found explosives, blasting caps and blue plastic barrels that matched fragments found at the scene of the bombing in Oklahoma City. 2. Blasting caps, timers and remote control detonators of all shapes and sizes are scattered about in cardboard boxes. 3. Blasting caps and boosters can be purchased only by licensed blasters, but like the explosives themselves, they can be stolen. 4. A spokesman for Marion County Sheriff Edward Davies said it was not yet clear whether there was any link between the bombing case and the blasting cap theft. 5. Agents also seized blasting caps, pyro fuse, live grenades, rifle and pistol primers and chemicals there, the search warrants indicated. 6. Combine a few simple ingredients -- in some cases, no need to measure -- then add a stick of dynamite and attach a blasting cap. 7. Detonating the nitroglycerine would merely require a small blasting cap fired by a battery-driven igniter, the expert said. 8. Gradert asserted that Nichols had many of the items on hand because he sells military equipment but admitted he may face a misdemeanor charge for having the blasting caps. 9. In the basement, the agents found ammonium nitrate and blasting caps. 10. Investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found blasting caps and safety fuses at the Michigan farm. |