Smithfield man found with 155 homemade bombs on property gets 8-year prison sentence

A Smithfield man who was found to have more than 150 homemade pipe bombs, bomb-making equipment, and an unregistered short barrel rifle on his property was sentenced to serve eight years in prison Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.

Brad Kenneth Spafford, 36, pleaded guilty in July after initially pleading not guilty to charges of possesion of an unregistered destructive device and possession of an unregistered short barrel rifle.

The FBI began investigating Spafford in 2023.

The investigation started after a source told authorities Spafford and his friends were allegedly preparing for something Spafford “would not be able to do alone,” court documents stated.

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