Explosives Found in Vehicle at Georgia Army Base

Source: CBS News/AP

The FBI was investigating after a civilian was arrested with explosives in his vehicle on an Army base in Georgia that is headquarters to the service's global communication and information systems, authorities said Wednesday.

Military authorities were not treating the case as a terrorist threat, said Buz Yarnell, a spokesman for Fort Gordon near Augusta.

The arrest Tuesday came a day after an AWOL serviceman was arrested in Florida for trying to enter an Air Force base there with fake ID and weapons, although authorities did not link the two and the Florida case was also deemed not terrorism.

Yarnell gave few other details. A news conference was scheduled at Fort Gordon later Wednesday.

The U.S. Attorney's office in Savannah named the man arrested Tuesday as Anthony Todd Saxon, 34. It said charges were expected to be filed Wednesday.


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Anthony Todd Saxon, 34, appears in an undated photo.

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Man seized at Army base had land mine, laser scope

By KATE BRUMBACK (AP) – 9 minutes ago

FORT GORDON, Ga. — A civilian pretending to be a soldier convinced an Army officer to give him a sophisticated laser sight for military rifles before he was caught hours later on the base with a land mine, several grenades and night vision devices, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that Anthony Todd Saxon, 34, falsely pretended to be an Army master sergeant on Tuesday and sought to steal the infrared laser targeting sight. He was expected to appear in federal court later Wednesday.

Saxon was wearing a full combat uniform, including rank and insignia, when he was stopped at Fort Gordon by military police and questioned about his activities, according to the complaint. After Saxon gave them consent to search his vehicle, authorities said they found several grenades and the land mine, among other equipment.

According to the complaint, Saxon told investigators he was able to obtain the laser sight by telling a captain in the base's military police office that he was a master sergeant in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and that he needed it to train a soldier.

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Well, he certainly has that wingnut 1000 yard stare down pat.....

Wonder if he's in any of the militias?

...but from the looks of his snoz, he zigged when he should have zagged. ;)

But show up at a military base with a bad haircut, fake ID, weapons and explosives, a starkly insane stare, and you are not treated as a terrorist threat.

Crazy fucked up rightwing country.

From the article: "Military authorities were not treating the case as a terrorist threat, said Buz Yarnell, a spokesman for Fort Gordon near Augusta."

OF COURSE NOT! He's not Muslim!!!

"right wing shenanigans"

He will probably get probation like O'Keefe.

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Military police at Fort Gordon, near Augusta, Georgia, have arrested a civilian for impersonating a soldier after "possible grenades" were found in his vehicle on base, a base spokesman said early Wednesday.

The Fort Gordon and Richmond County bomb squads were called to a remote location on the base after a search of the vehicle the man had been driving uncovered "several possible grenades" and other "militarylike" items, according to Buz Yarnell, a base spokesman. The FBI is leading the investigation, he said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/16/georgia.fort.gordon.arrest/index.html

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This is the second trespassing incident at a military base this week. On Monday, two people were arrested at MacDill Air Force Base for bringing military-style weapons and lacking proper ID.

Are they extreme right-wingers again? I can't imagine why anyone else would do this. Then again, maybe they are military wanna-be's, folks who want to join without going through the disciplinary rigors of basic training.

Are the terrorists? Seems an awfully stupid thing for a terrorist to do. Or are they just people who want to do some shooting and think a military base would be a safe place to do it. What is the real story behind this? What are the motivations?

the right winger nut ties, ie tea baggers has place a call for their army to take back the government any means necessary

Just kidding of course, but isn't this just a symptom of the "we can have anything we want mentality" in this nation? I have friends who bring their semi-automatic and automatic weapons into the woods during elk and deer hunting and blast the hell out of the bush....for laughs. ALL NRA idiots. You should see the collection of weapons my good friends house. It's damn scary, and they are often a bit "on the edge" with their bragging. Makes me worry.

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Buz Yarnell.

I wonder if his his buddy, Duke Shields, had anything to add.

I'm in that kind of mood, sorry.