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Savannah Morning News
Savannah, Georgia

Two blocks evacuated after missile found under Savannah home

Police locate warhead while responding to burglary report, evacuate two blocks

Staff and Wire Reports

Less than three weeks after a trash bin laden with military ordnance exploded and almost destroyed a Savannah garbage truck, police discovered an anti-tank missile and evacuated two blocks in the same neighborhood.

Savannah-Chatham police found the missile under the home of two men recently jailed on federal firearms charges and identified as suspects in the July 22 Dumpster explosion about a block from the house.

Police cleared the neighborhood around the home of Broderick Dass, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Brandon, for at least two hours Monday after police found the AT-4 anti-tank missile, said Savannah police Sgt. Mike Wilson.

Officers had gone to the house on the 400 block of West 62nd Street to respond to a burglary report when the missile was found, Wilson said.

"They said, 'Whoa,' in light of the history of the residence," Wilson said, referring to a search of the home last month that yielded 10 automatic weapons, some with altered serial numbers.

Savannah authorities contacted the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Army bomb-disposal unit at nearby Fort Stewart, which took the missile to a nearby fairground and detonated it.

Police found this AT-4 anti-tank warhead missile Monday evening in a crawlspace underneath the westside Savannah home of Broderick John Dass and his son Brandon Dass.

The Dasses, who remain in federal custody, were arrested by game wardens on July 17 after they were caught wandering in an aerial gunnery range used by helicopters at Fort Stewart.

The charges included illegally possessing automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as harassing an endangered gopher tortoise with a rottweiler, said Steve Hart, spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield.

Hart said it's possible the men could have taken the AT-4 missile from the range. "There's unexploded ordnance out there," he said.

The Dasses were released by the military, but ATF agents arrested them four days after that and authorities later found the weapons in their home, said Atlanta ATF Agent Gary Orchowski.

The day after the men were arrested, a Dumpster exploded as it was being emptied into a garbage truck a block from the Dasses' home.

The blast at about 6:50 a.m. July 22 blew the face off the Dumpster, shattered the rear window of the truck and threw the truck forward a few feet, knocking out a fence.

Neighbors said it sounded like a bomb. Nobody was hurt.

That incident also prompted an evacuation of nearby homes after police found another explosive in the truck's trash compartment as well as 20 mm bullets used in mounted military machine guns.

Orchowski said no charges have been filed in the explosion, but the Dasses are suspects.

Kathy Kirby, who lives two houses away from the Dasses, was one of roughly 25 families evacuated Monday. Although the missile was detonated almost a mile away from where she and neighbors were standing, they heard and felt the explosion, she said.

"We could feel the shock wave hit you," Kirby said. "Your hair was moving like a breeze hit you all of a sudden."

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