TULSA, Okla. (AP) A 36-year-old Missouri man has been placed on probation
after pleading guilty to having a pipe bomb at his former apartment in Oklahoma.
Federal court records in Tulsa show Richard C. Cole received two and a half years of probation when he was sentenced Thursday on one felony count of possession of an unregistered destructive device. Cole faced up to 10 years in prison.
Cole, of Joplin, was charged in August after the landlord of Cole’s former
apartment in Afton found an improvised explosive device in a garage after Cole
was evicted from the rental.
Authorities later discovered two 1-pound canisters containing “mixed
Tannerite,” a binary explosive, two boxes of ammunition and a pipe bomb in an
ammunition container. The explosive device was rendered safe and nobody was
hurt.
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