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FBI: Largest Cache of DIY Explosives Found on Va. Farm
NewsMax ^ | 12-31-24 | None

Posted on 12/31/2024 3:13:08 PM PST by AirForceVet1988

A Virginia man was arrested after the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" was discovered at his farm by the FBI, The New York Times reported.

Brad Spafford was apprehended outside Norfolk on Tuesday, Dec. 17, after more than 150 explosive devices were found in a detached garage on his 20-acre property, the Times reported. The devices were mainly pipe bombs, some labeled as "lethal," prosecutors told the Times.

Pipe bombs were also found inside his bedroom — loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading "#NoLivesMatter," the Times reported.

The neighbor said Spafford used photographs of President Joe Biden for target practice at a local shooting range and believed that "political assassinations should be brought back," according to court papers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 20241217; assassinationplots; backpack; bombs; bradleyspafford; bradspafford; cache; explosivedevices; explosives; farmer; fingers; gwot; nolivesmatter; norfolk; pipebombs; russiansocialmedia; socialmedia; spafford; telegram; terrorism; virginia; virginiaman
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Three fingers gone. Ya play with fire, you're gonna get burnt. Good riddance.
1 posted on 12/31/2024 3:13:08 PM PST by AirForceVet1988
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To: AirForceVet1988

Looks like they intercepted the MK-Ultra subject before his handlers could show him the Queen of Hearts.


2 posted on 12/31/2024 3:18:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Wonder who ratted on him?


3 posted on 12/31/2024 3:19:15 PM PST by Ken522
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To: Ken522

Somebody from the bar


4 posted on 12/31/2024 3:22:07 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Ken522

Article says a neighbor went onto his property with a audio recorder and recorded the idiot talking about all the explosives he had.

Being VA, probably some sort of FIB agent.


5 posted on 12/31/2024 3:23:52 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Execute Order 66....)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Over 50 years ago, around time I was 15 or so, I made black powder bombs in my garage with ingredients all bought at a local supermarket. Had some healthy fun with that.


6 posted on 12/31/2024 3:24:49 PM PST by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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To: AirForceVet1988

So he has a hobby.


7 posted on 12/31/2024 3:24:55 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Couldn’t he have just DIYed a scrapbook or model airplane like everyone else? Noooo. He had to do explosives.


8 posted on 12/31/2024 3:25:19 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Ken522

The doctors when they had to put his hand back together.


9 posted on 12/31/2024 3:26:57 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: Ken522

Nobody. AI tracked his chemical purchases.


10 posted on 12/31/2024 3:28:51 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Libloather

So he has a hobby.

*********

No he had a hobby.


11 posted on 12/31/2024 3:31:39 PM PST by deport
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

#NoLivesMatter, How convenient?


12 posted on 12/31/2024 3:38:41 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Chengdu54

Homemade black powder makes a lot of noise when used in a cannon made from 3/4-inch galvanized water pipe, capped at one end, with a 3/32 fuse hole drilled next to the cap. About 6 inches of carefully tamped powder and the same length of toilet-paper wadding (no projectiles, please) makes a hell of a boom.

Or so I’ve been told.


13 posted on 12/31/2024 3:44:50 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: AirForceVet1988

“According to the Times, No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram.”

It should be noted that Telegram is a RUZZIAN app, and therefore Putin is behind this ideology.

(well, not much different than those here who claimed that Putin was behind the Oct. 7 massacre because Putin supports Iran and Iran supports Hamas)


14 posted on 12/31/2024 3:49:24 PM PST by BobL
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To: SPDSHDW

“Article says a neighbor went onto his property with a audio recorder and recorded the idiot talking about all the explosives he had. Being VA, probably some sort of FIB agent.”

Who, the guy with the explosives or the neighbor?


15 posted on 12/31/2024 3:50:17 PM PST by BobL
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To: AirForceVet1988

“n October, the neighbor visited Spafford at his farm while wearing a recording device...Spafford said he had...360-degree turret he wanted to mount a 50-caliber rifle on, according to court papers.”

Sounds like neighbor watched “The Accountant” one too many times.


16 posted on 12/31/2024 3:53:52 PM PST by BobL
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“Or so I’ve been told.”

No persona experience but I gather that most accidental detonations occur when screwing down cap-ends and friction ignites powder residue in pipe threads.


17 posted on 12/31/2024 3:58:25 PM PST by Huaynero (N)
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"far-right"

Yep. "No Lives Matter" is a central tenet of the conservative moment. /sarc This smelly freak had nothing to do with conservatism.
18 posted on 12/31/2024 4:08:32 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

It sounds much more “far-left” than “far-right”.


19 posted on 12/31/2024 4:12:38 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: AirForceVet1988

FBI (so we all know)


20 posted on 12/31/2024 4:18:48 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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