Posted on 09/22/2006 2:15:38 PM PDT by good old days
Indianapolis - Police have arrested a man after finding chemicals and equipment in his apartment that they believe were being used to make dangerous weapons.
Joseph Bagley, 26, was arrested Friday morning at his apartment in Indianapolis. Police say they found chemicals, equipment, gas masks, air purification masks and unlabeled jars of chemicals and powders in Bagley's apartment. Police also saw soldering equipment in plain view, as well as batteries taped together, wires and putty material attached to a metal tube.
Marion County Haz Mat were called to the scene and technicians determined that the chemicals and materials were being used to make a regulated explosive.
Eyewitness News has learned that police have confiscated Bagley's computer.
The apartment complex manager told police that a carpet cleaner contractor had written a note saying that Bagley's apartment looked like a "terrorist cell." Police say they found literature about Al Qaeda in Bagley's apartment, as well as books on Muslim names, understanding United States documents and about Saddam Hussein's bomb maker.
Bagley was arrested on a charge of criminal recklessness. He told police that he had been mixing chemicals. Police also say he was a former electrical engineering student at a local university.
Police say they found chemicals, equipment, gas masks, air purification masks and unlabeled jars of chemicals and powders in Bagley's apartment. Police also saw soldering equipment in plain view, as well as batteries taped together, wires and putty material attached to a metal tube.... Police say they found literature about Al Qaeda in Bagley's apartment, as well as books on Muslim names, understanding United States documents and about Saddam Hussein's bomb maker.Allah Fubar!
A woman once phoned
the police about me because
my telescope looked
to her like a gun . . .
Now the guys that lay carpet
finger citizens . . .
Would you prefer the bomb going off on a subway? If this guy was stupid enough to leave his bombmaking equipment out and to have a cleaning service, he deserves whatever he gets. I have no civil liberties problems with this at all.
Let's hope this pans out.
Let's hope next week we don't see
the guys that cut grass
next to some Freeper
turn him in because he has
so many guns that
to the grass cutters
he must be a terrorist.
Sounds like that is next . . .
Read on another news report that his bond is set at a lousy $15,000....(rolling eyes)
They usually are incompatible with residential living situations.
I'm shocked that he had a soldering iron out "in plain view." Yikes, I've done that before.
No kidding. That's probably the same account that I read where the FBI said that there isn't any reason to believe that he is a terrorist threat.
"I'm shocked that he had a soldering iron out "in plain view." Yikes, I've done that before."
My people are well aware of that.
Good grief. Shouldn't they at least wait until they look in his computer?
Probably soldering a bomb into the CTRL-ALT-DEL configuration so that the first time the new owner tries to blow away the OS he gets a really big surprise.
I didn't realize soldering equipment had to be hidden. I have a very large Weller SMD soldering station and a stereo microscope in plain view. Am I about to have a SWAT team bust down the front door?
Our leaders and law enforcement people are stupid and insane.
Did you leave it lying next to " chemicals, equipment, gas masks, air purification masks and unlabeled jars of chemicals and powders"?
Ping to 15
What's the world coming to when a person can't build bombs in their apartment without somebody dropping a dime?
WHAT! You mean you don't have those kind of things around?
No gas mask - ya got me there. Note to self: get gas masks.
Of course I do. I just don't keep them next to my soldering iron. I keep that next to the plastic gas jug.
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