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| Atlanta Terrorist Stopped: Federal agents find potential bomb-making materials during search for drugs at Chamblee home |
| 2021-05-08 |
| The Atlanta media will be having a Headline Field day today... FBI/GBI/ATF/etc.. raid house finding Illegal Med's, large bomb and more. WSB-TV for Initial reports Federal agents swarmed a quiet DeKalb County neighborhood Friday morning. Channel 2 Action News learned that agents who were tracking a drug shipment from overseas made an even more dangerous discovery. Channel 2′s Mark Winne was on Captain Drive, where DEA agents and U.S. Postal Inspectors showed up with a search warrant for drugs -- but found evidence of another kind of danger, potential bomb-making materials. DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jae Chung said when agents found evidence of bomb-making, they had to back off and call in other agencies. “When our agents made entry into the house to execute the warrant, during their search, they discovered what they believed was bomb-making material,” Chung said. “So they paused and they contacted the ATF and the DeKalb County Police Department bomb squad.” Chung said DeKalb Fire Rescue responded as well as officers from local police departments. Experts began a careful, drawn-out process to find out just what they had. Any explosive danger had to be investigated before the drug investigation could go any further. Agents said they found a number of different kinds of chemicals. “Right now, they are still in the process of collecting that evidence, so that will be determined later on,” Chung said. “It’s not something that we see every day, but it does happen. We’re obviously very concerned for public safety.” It was hard to determine at the scene who was working the drug case and who was there to investigate the possible drug angle. “We’re trying to determine from a drug investigation standpoint whether or not this individual was a much larger distributor within the region in receiving large amounts of shipments from overseas and possibly distributing it throughout the local area as well as the southeast.” One person was taken into custody. “We do have one suspect in custody, but unfortunately we can’t get into a lot of details about who he is and what he’s done,” Chung said. The suspect was taken to the DeKalb County jail, where he is facing drug charges. It’s unclear how many charges he will face. A hazardous materials clean-up crew will go through the home. |
| Posted by:NN2N1 |
| #8 Nameless and faceless; could be a Capital police officer. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2021-05-08 21:11 |
| #7 So the guy may have been looking at doing something on much bigger human scale. A drug dealer making IEDs? Are we looking at gang warfare here, or something more interesting? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-08 21:10 |
| #6 A nameless, faceless suspect... Who is in custody, but still nameless and faceless. I place odds on Islamist, BLM, or anti-Asian. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-05-08 18:54 |
| #5 1st -----> Thanks Trailing Wife.... Some added info.... Some of my Security sources in Metro-A says the bomb(s) were Styrofoam container(s) wrapped with BB's and filled with a binary explosive and detonator. So the guy may have been looking at doing something on much bigger human scale. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-08 13:45 |
| #4 I fixed the link between your first and second comments, Lionel Lover of the Swedes2268 — thank you for the heads up. NN2N1 is working his way up the learning curve, as we all must. NN2N1, please paste the URL into the source box, not a description of where you found it. All I did was take it from WSB-TV for Initial reports and paste it where it belonged — the easiest fix I’ve done in a while. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-08 12:28 |
| #3 Channel 2′s Mark Winne Guess I need to move the diesel and fertilizer out of my barn. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-05-08 12:07 |
| #2 Sorry looks like the links work now... still wonder what happened to that Publix kid... |
| Posted by: Lionel Lover of the Swedes2268 2021-05-08 10:09 |
| #1 Links are all busted and I’m finding no mention in the local news. I live here and haven’t heard a thing, other than when some kid walked into a Publix not too long ago armed to the teeth, was arrested and then radio silence as afar as follow up. |
| Posted by: Lionel Lover of the Swedes2268 2021-05-08 10:07 |