SAN FRANCISCO – About 200 pounds of explosives and bomb-making hardware stolen from a storage locker used by two public safety agencies have been recovered from a stolen van, authorities said Thursday.
Stolen were 75 feet of “det sheet” and 30 to 35 pounds of C4, both explosives used by the military; 114 pounds of other explosives; and approximately 800 blasting caps and 1,700 feet of detonation cord, said Marti McKee, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The items were stolen sometime over the July 4 weekend from storage magazines in a depot used by the San Francisco Police Department and the San Mateo County Sheriff’s office.
The van was stopped near a shopping center in Union City Wednesday night, said McKee.
“It was a stolen van with stolen plates and we had information that possibly it was connected to the theft. We think we’ve recovered all of the explosives,” she said.
A man was detained by Hayward police but he was not arrested pending questioning by ATF agents, McKee said.
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