Virginia man arrested as agents find largest cache of ‘finished explosive devices’ in FBI history

A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said.

Authorities took Brad Spafford into custody Dec. 17 at a farm in Smithfield, about 29 miles northwest of Norfolk, and charged him with unlawful possession of an unregistered short-barrel rifle, according to court filings.

FBI agents found the rifle along with “a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices, assessed as pipe bombs,” during a search of his home, a detention memo says.

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