California gentleman held on $5M bond immediately after 5 pipe bombs, unlawful weapons observed at residence, business enterprise

A northern California male remained held on a $5 million bond Monday right after sheriff’s deputies past week allegedly uncovered five pipe bombs, as nicely as a cache of illegal assault rifles, automated weapons, extra than 15,000 rounds of ammunition and other “bomb-creating materials” at his household and organization in Napa.

The Napa County Sheriff’s Business office attained look for warrants for the household and small business of 44-12 months-previous Ian Benjamin Rogers just after obtaining a tip that he possessed several illegal guns. Investigators observed more than 50 guns — various of which ended up unregistered and/or illegal –, as properly as a lot more than 15,000 rounds of ammunition, and many pounds of gun powder, the sheriff’s place of work uncovered in a press launch.

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5 pipe bombs have been uncovered inside of a safe and sound at British Automobile Maintenance, the business enterprise owned by Rogers on Motion Ave. in Napa, a metropolis about 48 miles north of San Francisco in the heart of wine country. All five explosives ended up rendered risk-free by the Napa County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad.

The sheriff’s workplace explained to Fox News that it notified the FBI and numerous other organizations about the cache of weapons at Rogers’ property and business enterprise — though it stays far too early to validate no matter if there is any link to potential armed assaults predicted at state Capitols on Inauguration Day. 

“We’re in the early stage of investigating and have not dominated anything nonetheless,” sheriff’s spokesman Henry Wofford instructed Fox News. “We never want to result in any needless panic, but we also really don’t want to search about any threats, as we keep on to comb as a result of details.”

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Rogers was taken into custody just before 8 a.m. Friday, and, after being interviewed by detectives, was positioned below arrest at 3 p.m. that day. He is billed with 5 felonies and a person misdemeanor linked to the possession of illegal assault rifles, automated weapons, and explosives.

He was booked at the Napa County Section of Corrections, where he remained Monday early morning, Wofford mentioned. No arraignment day has been established still, as the district attorney’s office has nevertheless to file its indictment ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  

“We are in common communication with the Napa Sheriff’s Workplace, but would refer you to them regarding their ongoing investigation,” an FBI spokesman instructed Fox Information, via e-mail. “We have no even more remark at this time.”