http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1064633/posts "Explosive discovery leads to an arrest"
appeal democrat ^ | 1/24/04
Posted on 01/24/2004 4:30:17 PM PST by knak
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Linda woman was arrested Wednesday with enough explosive detonation cord in her car to blow a crater in the road, according to a state bomb and arson expert.
A Yuba County sheriff's deputy found the cord in a 5-gallon plastic bucket inside the car when he stopped Teresa Jean Oliver, 43, of the 5900 block of Garden Avenue, for a vehicle code violation at 8:34 p.m., Undersheriff Steve Durfor said.
Oliver, who is on parole for a previous drug offense, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a destructive device without a permit and was being held Friday in the Yuba County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail. A court date had not been set Friday.
After recognizing a parolee who was a passenger in the car, the deputy searched the car and found what he believed to be detonation cord. The parolee, who was not identified, was not arrested, Durfor said.
The car was registered to Oliver, he said.
California Department of Forestry bomb and arson investigator Phil Porto was called to the scene and ordered a 300-foot perimeter set up around Oliver's car in the parking lot of the Linda Wal-Mart store on North Beale Road. The Linda Fire Department also was summoned.
Porto estimated the bucket contained almost 2,000 feet of the cord, which he said is highly explosive when exposed simultaneously to heat and shock. Porto said the car did not contain blasting caps that are ordinarily used to ignite the cord.
If the cord had exploded, it would have demolished the car, blown a 4-foot crater in the road and turned anyone in or near the car into "red mist," Porto said."