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No guards. No lights. No cameras. No alarms. A barbed-wire fence, a gate, a few warning signs and some locks are what guarded several hundred pounds of explosives, enough to blow up a large building. The security measures, which meet federal regulations, are what a thief faced sometime last week when the plastic explosives, 2,500 blasting caps and explosive detonator cords were stolen from a Bernalillo County storage depot. The explosives belonged to Cherry Engineering. The company is owned by Chris Cherry, one of the nation's most respected bomb experts and a Sandia National Laboratories employee. The security measures protecting...

Officials Fret Over Disappearance Of Explosives 150 Pounds Of Explosives Missing From Sandia-Affiliated Company POSTED: 2:10 pm MST December 19, 2005 UPDATED: 2:17 pm MST December 19, 2005 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Officials discovered hundreds of pounds of explosives stolen in Albuquerque on Sunday. One hundred fifty pounds of c4, 250 pound deta sheet, and 2,000 blasting caps were taken from a Sandia Labs employee's company. Officials are very concerned about these thefts. The items were stolen from a facility in Southwest Albuquerque. Burglars apparently cut through steel bars to get at the goods. C4 is a plastic explosive. A deta...

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Posted on Sun, Jun. 23, 2002 Soldier held on $110,000 bond in explosives theft Army Spc. Ricky Todd Godsey, who was charged Friday in connection with the theft of 300 sticks of explosives from Robinson Paving Co., was still being held Saturday in the Muscogee County Jail.Godsey, 23, was charged with felony theft by taking and possession of destructive devices in the materials discovered missing on May 23 in Columbus. The Fort Benning soldier was ordered held on $110,000 bond after a Recorder's Court hearing.On Friday, authorities said another soldier, Spc. Billy J. Pitzen, 20, of Columbus, also was...