ATF: National Odor Recognition Testing

The National Odor Recognition Test (NORT) is a nationally recognized standardized method to evaluate a canine team’s ability to detect selected explosives. The ATF National Canine Division mobile training team travels to jurisdictions throughout the United States to administer NORT. Read More …

New York: Bomb Squad Called to Waterloo Residence After Suspected Explosives Found

Sticks of dynamite, a live grenade, and roughly 20 pounds of gunpowder — discovered inside a private home in upstate New York. That’s what investigators found when they responded to a residence on Brewer Road in the Town of Waterloo Read More …

Virginia: Loudoun County Authorities make an arrest in the Leesburg explosion investigation

The Loudoun County Fire Marshal’s Office announced an arrest in connection with the October 5 explosions in Leesburg. Trent Lasher of Leesburg was arrested January 29 and charged with two felony counts of possession of, Manufacturing, and use of firebombs Read More …

Tennessee: Chemical Safety Board to investigate deadly explosion at munitions facility

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will investigate the explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort that killed 16 people. “This is one of the deadliest industrial incidents in our country in years,” said Steve Owens, the chairperson Read More …

Hawaii: EOD technicians train for maritime operations

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii — Service members and interagency partners from across the Department of Defense and federal, state, and local organizations gathered September 22, 2025, on Oahu to take part in the five-day Maritime Operations for Bomb Technicians (MOBT) course. Read More …

Mississippi: Woman arrested after homemade explosive device found in package

A woman was arrested after Mississippi authorities say they found a homemade explosive device in a suspicious package. Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office have arrested Christina Laureen Willis, 27, of Batesville. Willis is being charged with attempted murder, and Read More …

Fort Carson: Evans Army Community Hospital tests emergency response capabilities

Evans Army Community Hospital hosted an emergency response exercise with the 62nd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) and the Fort Carson Police Department June 17, 2025. The training exercise tested the hospital staff’s ability to respond to an exercise bomb Read More …

California: Palm Springs fertility clinic ‘targeted’ in explosion that leaves one dead and at least 4 others injured

At least one person is dead and four others injured in a Palm Springs, California, explosion outside a fertility clinic, Akil Davis, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of Los Angeles’ field office, said Saturday. The FBI is still working Read More …

North Carolina: Agents recover suspect device during search for an armed man in Hoke County

A multiagency search was underway Monday evening for an armed man who eluded authorities after a traffic stop that started in Robeson County. It all began about 1 p.m. after agents with the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division (ALE) Read More …

New Mexico: Authorities investigate damaging fire at GOP headquarters

Federal authorities are investigating a fire early Sunday that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Agents working with local authorities recovered unspecified “incendiary materials” at the scene, said Bureau of Alcohol Read More …

Louisiana: New Orleans attacker likely used common explosive in bombs

Federal authorities believe Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who killed 14 people in an ISIS-inspired vehicular attack in New Orleans, used a common explosive compound in two homemade bombs that did not detonate, ATF Special Agent in Charge Joshua Jackson said Sunday. On Read More …

Virginia: Homemade explosives found in stolen vehicle in Warren County, suspect arrested

A man from Arlington is facing charges after being found in Warren County with homemade explosive devices. On Jan. 1, officials received a report of a suspicious vehicle near Hillandale Road around 9:30 p.m. When deputies approached the driver, who Read More …

Louisiana: Bomb-making materials found at New Orleans Airbnb potentially tied to Bourbon Street terrorist

Bomb-making materials were reportedly found at a New Orleans Airbnb, as authorities investigate a possible connection to the truck-ramming terror attack that killed at least 15 people and injured over 30 others on Bourbon Street during a New Year’s celebration. Read More …

ATF Philadelphia warns about illegal explosives, dangers of some fireworks ahead of New Year’s Eve 2024

People in our area are getting ready for their New Year’s celebrations and for some, that means ringing in 2025 with a fireworks show. Law enforcement is warning people about where they get their explosives from and the dangers some Read More …

Texas: Officers find improvised explosive devices, multiple guns in suspicious van in White Settlement

Multiple guns and improvised explosive devices were found in a suspicious van in a White Settlement neighborhood Tuesday morning, police said. According to the White Settlement Police Department, officers responded to the report of a suspicious vehicle in the 9200 block Read More …

Kansas: Newton police find illegal explosives, one arrested

Newton police have taken an unidentified person into custody after finding dozens of illegal explosives in the garage of a home. Police said a suspect fled from a North Newton Police officer during an unrelated traffic stop. Newton Police assisted Read More …

Texas: Tatum man accused of making homemade explosive devices

A Tatum man was arrested on charges that he was creating homemade explosive devices and was in possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. According to Rusk County Sheriff Johnwayne Valdez, the sheriff’s office began an investigation into allegations that Robert Martin, Read More …

Iowa: Des Moines police arrest suspect in bomb blast

Authorities in central Iowa say they’ve made an arrest after a homemade bomb exploded on Tuesday. Des Moines police say someone detonated what’s described as a dangerous homemade explosive device in a residential neighborhood south of the downtown. Police say Read More …

Pennsylvania: 50 pounds of ‘improvised’ explosives found at ‘bomb-making laboratory’ inside Philadelphia home

A 28-year-old man was arrested and charged after authorities discovered “improvised explosive devices in a makeshift laboratory” at his Philadelphia home, officials announced on Wednesday. The man, identified as Evgenii Sadrislamov, and his mother were escorted outside of the home Read More …

ATF hosts explosive training at Ramstein AB

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives held a post-blast training course for U.S. Air Force Airmen and other NATO allies at Ramstein Air Base, Aug. 7-11, 2023. The week-long course trains students in Read More …