TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ A federal grand jury has indicted a Missouri man accused of
having a pipe bomb at an apartment in northeastern Oklahoma.
Prosecutors said Monday 36-year-old Richard C. Cole of Joplin was indicted by a grand jury in Tulsa with possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Authorities say Delaware County sheriff’s deputies were called to Cole’s
apartment in Afton after the landlord discovered a suspected improvised
explosive device.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol Bomb Squad discovered two 1-pound canisters
containing “mixed Tannerite,” a type of binary explosive, two boxes of
ammunition and a pipe bomb in an ammunition container. The explosive device was
rendered safe and nobody was injured.
Cole’s attorney, William Patrick Widell Jr. of the Federal Public Defender’s
Office, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
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