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Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. The FBI has made its largest seizure

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Speaker 2: of explosive devices to date at a farm in Virginia,

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Speaker 2: and the owner is now in custody. Brad Spafford of Smithfield,

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Speaker 2: Virginia was initially charged with possessing an unregistered rifle, but

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Speaker 2: when investigators carry out a search worn on this property,

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Speaker 2: they find a stockpile of more than one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty homemade improvised explosive devices assessed as pipe bombs. The

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Speaker 2: majority of the explosives were found in a garage separate

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Speaker 2: from his home, but a backpack in his bedroom also

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Speaker 2: contained explosive materials. According to a criminal complaint, the hashtag

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Speaker 2: no Lives Matter was written on the outside of his bag.

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Speaker 2: The tag represents an ideology that is historically promoted mass violence,

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Speaker 2: self harm, and animal abuse. Inside Spafford's freezer, investigators find

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Speaker 2: a jar of HMTD and explosives so delicate that the

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Speaker 2: friction of temperature changes could cause it to explode. It

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Speaker 2: was labeled dangerous and do not touch, and was stored

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Speaker 2: alongside food items. In a motion to revoke Spafford's release,

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Speaker 2: prosecutors stated that Spafford put his community, as well as

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Speaker 2: his wife and two children, in extreme danger, and he

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Speaker 2: could continue to do so if he does not remain

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Speaker 2: behind bars. The motion also states that the FBI located

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Speaker 2: a notebook in Spafford's residence that contained recipes for explosives

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Speaker 2: and other destructive weapons, including grenade's HMTD in military grade

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Speaker 2: explosive C four. The suspect also allegedly expressed support for

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Speaker 2: political assassinations, used photos of President Joe Biden for target practice,

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Speaker 2: and recently sought qualifications in sniper rifle shooting at a

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Speaker 2: local range, according to prosecutors. Spafford, who his lawyers say

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Speaker 2: has no history of criminal activity, mas mental illness, or

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Speaker 2: substance abuse, became the subject of investigation after an undisclosed

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Speaker 2: source warned law enforcement about Spafford. Spafford had allegedly revealed

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Speaker 2: the source that he lost three fingers on his right

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Speaker 2: hand while creating an explosive device. Spafford remains behind bars

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Speaker 2: after his arrest just over two weeks ago. More crime

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Speaker 2: and justice news. After this, A Memphis woman pays her hairstylist,

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Speaker 2: Michelle Ray, four hundred and ten dollars for her haircut

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Speaker 2: and style while Ray is still working. When the woman

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Speaker 2: asks if Ray got the money, Ray tells her she's short,

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Speaker 2: claiming the client still owes her an additional fifty dollars

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Speaker 2: for a cut over four years ago. Confused, the client

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Speaker 2: argues with Ray over the charge, but Ray is insistent,

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Speaker 2: shouting you need to pay me now. Keep in mind

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Speaker 2: I have these scissors next to your face. Ray then

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Speaker 2: demands more money and the victim tries to run from

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Speaker 2: the salon, but Ray locks the door and blocks the exit,

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Speaker 2: saying you're not going anywhere until you pay me, in

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Speaker 2: calling the client explotives. At this point, the victim is

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Speaker 2: so afraid of Ray she dials nine one one. Ray

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Speaker 2: argues with cops through the door about letting the victim go,

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Speaker 2: only releasing her. When cops says she will face kidnapping

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Speaker 2: charges if she doesn't open the door, the woman runs

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Speaker 2: from the salon, still wearing a smock, to safety. Michelle

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Speaker 2: Ray thirty one, now facing charges of aggravated assault and

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Speaker 2: false imprisonment. Now to Petersburg, Virginia, where a loving wife, mother,

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Speaker 2: and grandmother hasn't been seen in more than a year.

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Speaker 2: Charrelle Brown, fifty two, is having trouble managing her diabetes

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Speaker 2: and has had two seizures in the span of two weeks. Thursday,

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Speaker 2: Charrelle's daughter Brenda takes her mom grocery shopping in to lunch,

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Speaker 2: but the outing where's Charrelle out, so Brenda takes her home.

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Speaker 2: Nancy has more details on Friday's events.

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Speaker 1: She takes a Friday off to rest at her Petersburg,

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Speaker 1: Virginia home and babysits for eleven year old granddaughter that evening.

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Speaker 1: When her husband Phil arrives home around eleven PM, she

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Speaker 1: and the granddaughter are sitting on the porch. He goes

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Speaker 1: inside to change and when he comes back out, Charrell's gone,

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Speaker 1: the granddaughter says. Charrell says she was going to get

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Speaker 1: help and would be right back. Before she walked away,

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Speaker 1: Charrell left her keys and cell phone behind.

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Speaker 2: Family believes Charrell may have been having a medical emergency

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Speaker 2: and worry she may have passed out somewhere and nobody

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Speaker 2: could see she needed help. Charrell did not take her

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Speaker 2: medication with her. Petersburg p D assumed Charrell left on foot,

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Speaker 2: but searches near her home and scouring Sirinellan's footage from

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Speaker 2: nearby buildings turns up nothing. Sergeant James Darrington says the

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Speaker 2: search has been extremely difficult as Charrell left everything that

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Speaker 2: could be tracked behind. Authorities do not suspect foul play

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Speaker 2: in her disappearance. Charrell Brown is African American, five feet tall,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five pounds, with pixie cut black

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Speaker 2: head hair, and brown eyes. If you have any information

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Speaker 2: on Cherrell Brown, please call Petersburg, Virginia p D At

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