Hagerstown man charged after threat to blow up Maryland MVA

A Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration employee has been charged with making a threat of mass violence after allegedly threatening to blow up his workplace south of Hagerstown, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.

Investigators would later search Anthony Jacob Fritz’s home in Hagerstown’s North End and find 26 guns and 67 containers of ammunition, which were taken into police custody, the release states.

The search of Fritz’s home came after investigators were able, under the state’s Red Flag law, to get an Extreme Risk Protective Order.

Fritz, 38, faces two misdemeanor charges, with the other being a count of arson threat.

Around 10:30 a.m. Friday, MVA workers told a Maryland State Police trooper working at the MVA office, at 18306 Col. Henry K. Douglas Drive, that Fritz threatened to employees he was going to bomb the MVA building, the release states.

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