Sol Invictus
12-13-2009, 05:22 PM
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9018104
Published November 3rd, 2009 (old)
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — An Army Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday after a pair of hunters found about 100 pounds of explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell.
Maj. April Olsen, a spokeswoman at the sprawling Army post on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, said the unidentified soldier was being held in the county jail.
Federal and military officials searched his home outside Clarkesville after the hunters found the C-4 plastic explosives in a field late Sunday. Ted Denny, spokesman for the Montgomery County sheriff, said they appeared to be military ordnance.
Joel Siskovic, a spokesman for the FBI in Tennessee, said the agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force were called to the scene, but after conducting interviews, they determined there was no connection to domestic or international terrorism.
Most C-4 explosives are used by the military, but there is limited commercial use, such as in demolitions, said Lon Santis, manager of technical services for the Institute of Makers of Explosives, the safety and security association of the commercial explosives industry.
Santis said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has record-keeping and identification requirements it can use to track explosives, but those requirements do not apply to military explosives.
Another Fort Campbell soldier was arrested in October and charged with selling four stolen hand grenades and a stolen anti-tank rocket to an undercover officer in Tennessee.
Prosecutors said the transaction with Pfc. Joshua Bartlett Etherton, a 101st Airborne Division soldier, was arranged after police in the small town of Paris received a tip, but they would not say who he believed was the buyer.
He remains in prison without bond.
Published November 3rd, 2009 (old)
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — An Army Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday after a pair of hunters found about 100 pounds of explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell.
Maj. April Olsen, a spokeswoman at the sprawling Army post on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, said the unidentified soldier was being held in the county jail.
Federal and military officials searched his home outside Clarkesville after the hunters found the C-4 plastic explosives in a field late Sunday. Ted Denny, spokesman for the Montgomery County sheriff, said they appeared to be military ordnance.
Joel Siskovic, a spokesman for the FBI in Tennessee, said the agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force were called to the scene, but after conducting interviews, they determined there was no connection to domestic or international terrorism.
Most C-4 explosives are used by the military, but there is limited commercial use, such as in demolitions, said Lon Santis, manager of technical services for the Institute of Makers of Explosives, the safety and security association of the commercial explosives industry.
Santis said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has record-keeping and identification requirements it can use to track explosives, but those requirements do not apply to military explosives.
Another Fort Campbell soldier was arrested in October and charged with selling four stolen hand grenades and a stolen anti-tank rocket to an undercover officer in Tennessee.
Prosecutors said the transaction with Pfc. Joshua Bartlett Etherton, a 101st Airborne Division soldier, was arranged after police in the small town of Paris received a tip, but they would not say who he believed was the buyer.
He remains in prison without bond.