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Police find weapons cache in Howard County home
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Associated Press
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Police discovered a cache of military weapons Friday in a single-family home in the 3600 block of Fels Lane in Ellicott City.
The arsenal included mortars, hand grenades, blasting caps, .50-caliber machine guns, rockets and drums of chemicals and acid, WBAL-TV reported.
Investigators were searching Friday evening for the previous owner of the home, identified only as a 43-year-old man, and were trying to determine if the weapons were stolen, according to Howard County police.
Police were called about 1 p.m. by representatives of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, who discovered the weapons in plain view during a visit to the unoccupied home.
Representatives from the State Fire Marshal’s bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were called to the home along with criminal investigators and explosives experts from the U.S. Army.
The street was cordoned off as a precaution, and the weapons were removed from the home. They will be in the custody of the State Fire Marshal’s office for disposal.
Originally published on Jul 14 2000
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Thane (NRA GOA JPFO SAF CAN)
MD C.A.N.OP
tbellomo@home.com
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www.members.home.net/tbellomo/tbellomo/index.htm
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Police find weapons cache in Howard County home
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Associated Press
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Police discovered a cache of military weapons Friday in a single-family home in the 3600 block of Fels Lane in Ellicott City.
The arsenal included mortars, hand grenades, blasting caps, .50-caliber machine guns, rockets and drums of chemicals and acid, WBAL-TV reported.
Investigators were searching Friday evening for the previous owner of the home, identified only as a 43-year-old man, and were trying to determine if the weapons were stolen, according to Howard County police.
Police were called about 1 p.m. by representatives of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, who discovered the weapons in plain view during a visit to the unoccupied home.
Representatives from the State Fire Marshal’s bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were called to the home along with criminal investigators and explosives experts from the U.S. Army.
The street was cordoned off as a precaution, and the weapons were removed from the home. They will be in the custody of the State Fire Marshal’s office for disposal.
Originally published on Jul 14 2000
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Thane (NRA GOA JPFO SAF CAN)
MD C.A.N.OP
tbellomo@home.com
http://homes.acmecity.com/thematrix/digital/237/cansite/can.html
www.members.home.net/tbellomo/tbellomo/index.htm
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas