The delegates of the sheriff in Tennessee found 14 improvised explosive devices in the house of a man who is reportedly planned to explode when the law enforcement arrived, according to the Sheriff’s Office of Polk County.
Detectives accompanied representatives on Friday to the house of Kevin Wade O’Neal, 54, to arrest him on active warrants. O’Neal is accused of threat to kill civil servants and law enforcement staff.
While the representatives arrested O’Neal, she noted that something was burning in the bedroom where they found him, according to NBC News. They investigated the object and determined that it was an improvised explosive (IED).
The representatives asked for help from the Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms and explosives and local bomb team officers.
The officers and officers were looking for the building and are said to have found 14 IEDs in the O’Neal house, as well as a woman who hid in a dryer, according to ABC News 9.
O’Neal is said to be planning to explode the devices when the police arrived, according to detectives
The sworn explanation claims that if the bombs went off, they had sent grenade shards that would fly 2500 feet and would have placed nine delegates and two women in the house in serious danger.
O’Neal is confronted with countless charges, including 11 counts of attempted murder in the first degree, 14 counts of prohibited weapons and one count of possession of explosive components, according to the Sheriff office.
ABC News 9 reports that O’Neal reportedly made threats on his social media pages.
In a message from July, O
Steve Ross is the sheriff of Polk County, according to the outlet.
In another walking post of 8 July, O
“I will die to kill you before I have comfort in the life you surrender to your wishes,” he reportedly wrote. “I consider it an honor to kill you all and give my life in the process of fighting you.”
The Sheriff office said O’Neal is currently being held in the prison of Polk County. No bond has been established at the time of this report.
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