Via: CBS:
A Boston police officer is free on $1,000 bail after police in
Plymouth say they found a cache of military grade explosives in a shed
at his former home.
Kirk Merricks, 43, of Dorchester, was charged Friday with 11 counts
of possession of explosives, along with theft and ammunition charges.
Police say they received a call on Thursday from the homeowner,
identified as Merricks’ estranged wife, saying she was cleaning out a
bedroom closet and found four ¼ sticks of TNT and assorted ammunition in
a metal box marked “highly explosive.”
The bomb squad responded to the home on Paddington Way, where
explosives experts recovered a briefcase from a shed outside the home
that had “a bandolier that contained four military-grade M203 rounds,
six detonator cords with attached blasting caps and two rolls of timed
fused cord connected to non-electric fixing mechanisms,” District
Attorney’s office reported.
Merricks is accused of stealing those explosives and storing them in the shed.
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