AUGUSTA, Maine — An Augusta man is facing charges after authorities detonated explosive material they allegedly found in his apartment.
Jeremy Upp was taken to the Kennebec County jail where he remained held on a charge of criminal use of explosives on $25,000 bail Thursday night.
Joseph Thomas, acting state fire marshal, said his office executed a search warrant on Upp’s apartment at 12:45 p.m. Thursday after the 36-year-old Upp’s probation officer expressed concern.
The Maine State Police Bomb Squad detonated unidentified material Thomas said was found in Upp’s unit.
Upp’s live-in girlfriend, Amanda Bechard, told the Kennebec Journal that the materials seized were purchased at a fireworks store.
bang, bang,weeee, bang, bang, whoosh.ooooh, ah, weeee- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM …..Only the beginning folks…
So are firework legal or not? It depends on who you are or where you live???
Augusta has a no fireworks code. That means you can not detonate them in Augusta, at all, not even outside the compact urban line. The only way is if you have and maintain a license and get a permit for an event or something like that. My neighbors’ boys found out after the police were called. The police confirmed the ordinance and they stopped the explosions. I don’t think they like the natives to have explosives in this state.
they don’t like us to have anything in this state.
Too bad they got confiscated. Would have like to have seen them touched off in front of the Blaine House in July.
Maybe he was going to make an underwear bomb.
Explosive material that authorities say they seized from a Gage Street
home Thursday is likely a compound known as “mother of Satan” to Islamic
extremists for its instability and can be made easily from household
items.
“During the investigation, Jeremy Upp was identified as the person responsible for the explosions and Upp was manufacturing and detonating explosives to the rear of his apartment,” MacMaster wrote.
The affidavit said triacetone triperoxide — known by the acronym TATP — was the explosive authorities found in Upp’s apartment that was later detonated by Maine State Police bomb technicians in his backyard Thursday night.
“You can walk into a Rite Aid and walk out with the components,” said Thomas, the acting state fire marshal. “To have (TATP), you have to have changed the composition of the material.”
from the KJ