Large Explosives Stash Is Missing From Storage
About 150 pounds of commercial plastic explosives have disappeared from a private storage site along with 2,500 blasting caps and 20,000 feet of explosive detonation cord, authorities in Albuquerque said.
“In the hands of the wrong person, this material can be very, very destructive,” Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White said at a news conference.
Wayne Dixie, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives, said the material was enough to level a building. Dixie cautioned that there was no evidence to suggest a link to terrorism.
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