Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Polk County, Tenn., Sheriff's deputies found 14 explosive devices inside the Old Fort home of Kevin Wade O'Neal, whom they arrested on Friday for allegedly threatening public officials.
The deputies were enforcing arrest warrants for O'Neal, 54, for allegedly threatening to kill Polk County law enforcement members and public officials.
Sheriff's deputies and detectives contacted O'Neal and arrested him inside his home when they "realized something was smoldering inside the bedroom where Mr. O'Neal had been located," the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
"Officers observed what they believed to be an improvised explosive device inside the room" and "immediately evacuated the residence," the PCSO said.
The Chattanooga Police Department's bomb squad and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched the property and located 14 improvised explosive devices.
