Tennessee authorities find 14 IEDs in man’s home during arrest

Tennessee officials have found 14 improvised explosive devices in a man’s home as they stop him this week, suspected of threats from officials, said Polk County Sheriff.

The Sheriff’s deputies and detectives went to an address on Friday seeking to stop Kevin Wade O’Neal on active mandates. O’Neal was accused of having threatened to kill civil servants and police staff in the county, according to a press release from the Sheriff.

While they placed it in police custody, they noticed something smoking in the room where they found O’Neal and determined that it was an IED, officials said.

Bomb Squad officers and agents of the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives who searched the house found 14 IED inside, said the sheriff’s office. The detectives said that O’Neal’s plan was to explode the bombs while the police arrived to stop it.

O’Neal, 54, faces a mass of accusations, including 11 charges of attempted murder in the first degree, 14 banks of prohibited arms and a chief of possession of explosive components, said the sheriff’s office.

Attempts to murder relate to the staff of the Sheriff office and to two other people who were on the scene, the office said.

The sheriff’s office said O’Neal was detained in Polk County prison and that the deposit had not yet been determined. He was not immediately clear if he had a legal representation.