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May 13, 2010
Former North Charleston police officer busted with house full of explosives
Former North Charleston police officer Joe McFarlin was arrested this week in New Mexico on allegations that he possessed enough explosives to blow up an entire neighborhood. McFarlin worked for the bomb squad and the explosives were allegedly taken from the North Charleston police department.
McFarlin worked in North Charleston as a member of the department's bomb squad, but quit and moved across the country. On Tuesday night, he was taken into custody in New Mexico with enough explosives to blow up an entire neighborhood.What they found in McFarlin's possession were three different types of nearly 60 high explosives. And with them, blasting caps and detonators.
The article says that a tip led to McFarlin's house - so, the North Charleston PD did not realize that they were light 60 explosives, blasting caps, and detonators? They don't inventory this stuff?
