Anyone see this?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/03/18/school.scare.ap/index.html Teen found with 20 bombs at school
Charged with attempted murder
Friday, March 19, 2004 Posted: 10:38 AM EST (1538 GMT)
Police found homemade bombs in the trunk of Josh Magee's car.
MALCOLM, Nebraska (AP) -- A teenager was charged with attempted murder after police found him outside his school with 20 homemade bombs, a rifle and a note saying he wanted to injure everyone at his high school except for three friends.
Authorities believe they averted what could have been the worst school shooting since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.
Josh Magee, 17, was arrested Tuesday in the parking lot of Malcolm High School after a staff member saw him swigging liquor from a flask and putting on a black overcoat.
Police who searched Magee's car found a bolt-action rifle, several rounds of ammunition, small bottles of propane and rigged containers of a petroleum-based propellant.
"It had the potential of going badly," said Superintendent Gene Modernize. "With this student, at this school, on this particular day, we were successful. We got lucky."
Parents and school officials in this tiny town north of Lincoln said Magee often spoke about Columbine, where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.
"He asked them in class last week if they knew who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were," said Julia Lostrah, whose daughter is Magee's classmate. "Then he said, `I know them."'
Second school incident within a week
The arrest came in the same week that authorities in another rural town in the heartland avoided a potentially violent school encounter.
Two second-grade boys and an 11-year-old schoolmate were arrested Wednesday in Forsyth, Montana, on charges that they buried a loaded handgun in a playground sandbox and plotted to shoot and stab a third-grade girl during recess. Authorities said the boys intended to harm the young girl because she had teased two of them.
No one answered the door Thursday at Magee's red-brick home just down the road from the school in Malcolm, a town so small that its downtown streets are unpaved.
School and law enforcement officials said his mother works as a chef in Lincoln, and his father is serving in Afghanistan in the military.
Magee, who has attended Malcolm schools since kindergarten, was always been on the district's radar, Neddenriep said.
"All the way through, he was just a little different," he said. "He liked to be alone, he didn't take part in many things. His enjoyment was weapons."
The superintendent said he wasn't aware of reports that Magee was a target of bullies. "There were never any incidents reported," he said.
When students began reporting to faculty that Magee bragged of making and testing explosives at home, Neddenriep said, the school paid close attention to the teen.
Magee then began showing some interest in school activities, he said.
Lostrah, who is also the school district's administrative assistant, said Magee joined the cross-country team and was an impressive musician.
"He was very talented," she said.
Magee was being held in a juvenile jail, but he was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder.
Neddenriep said the school of about 450 students will refine its safety policies in the wake of Magee's arrest.
"There's one thing I did learn," Neddenriep said. "It can happen anywhere."
I think Satan has been told his time is limited and is going all out. I'm getting that Revelation feeling lately and so are a lot of folks I know that aren't even very religious.
His dad's over in Afghanistan. Too bad he has to come home to this news.
http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,920581,00.html Student, 14, arrested after explosives found in backpack
Published in the Asbury Park Press 3/07/04
By NAOMI MUELLER and JOE ZEDALIS
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
BRICK -- A 14-year-old Ocean County Vocational Technical School student was arrested Friday after police found his backpack filled with homemade explosives left unattended in the school's hallway, Brick Lt. Doug Kinney said.
The backpack was found by a group of students who were discussing its contents when a teacher overheard them. The teacher called the school's administration, which called police at 8:23 a.m., according to a news release from police.
William P. Hoey Jr., superintendent of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School, said he was told by bomb squad members that the device, which he described as looking "like large, homemade firecrackers," was actually an improvised incendiary device.
Lt. Jack Oakley of the State Police Homeland Security Brach-Technical Response Bureau said device had pyrotechnic powder inside.
"It's the same material found in fireworks like an M-80 or and M-100," Oakley said. "Instead of detonation, it is a substance that burns rapidly. If it was close enough to a combustable material, it would generate enough heat and flame to initiate a fire and cause serious damage or injury to anyone or anything in close proximity."
Oakley said information on how to build a device like the one found can be found on the Internet.
"The information is easily accessible," he said.
Students were evacuated to the neighboring Brick Township High School, while Brick police, members of the State Police bomb and K-9 squads and the Ocean County Sheriff's K-9 Unit recovered the devices and searched the rest of the school.
Meanwhile, the student, whom Hoey believed to be a freshman, was interviewed at police headquarters and eventually released to his parents' custody. Hoey said the teen will not be in school tomorrow. He said the teen "was not a disciplinary problem."
"After the police complete their investigation, then we will determine what will happen to the student," Hoey said.
Oakley said Brick police exacuted a search warrant at the student's home Friday, but could not confirm what, if anything, was found. Brick police also declined comment on the results of the search yesterday.
Kinney said "additional items" were found in the student's locker but declined to say what those items were. Police said no other explosives were found in the school. The teen's locker at Brick Township High School also was searched but nothing illegal was found there, police said.
The Ocean County Vocational School was reopened at 11 a.m., although the afternoon sessions were canceled. Hoey also said the school officials "will review and debrief on exactly what we did and what our security measures are."
The teen was charged with three counts of possession of a destructive device and three counts of risking widespread injury or damage. Kinney said the investigation is ongoing and that additional charges are pending.