FBI Report Shows Explosive Components Allegedly Found in Home of Ex-Cop Charged in U.S. Capitol Breach – By Adam Klasfeld (Law and Crime) / July 22 2021
The day after urging a federal judge to keep an ex-police officer behind bars pending trial, federal prosecutors on Thursday revealed the FBI report concluding that components found in the accused U.S. Capitol rioter’s home “could be used to readily assemble” an “improvised explosive device.”
Thomas Robertson, a 47-year-old former Rocky Mount, Va. police officer, has been released since less than a week after his arrest in January. The discovery of those materials could jeopardize that freedom. Robertson claimed that what prosecutors describe as a “partially-assembled pipe bomb” found in his home in June was actually a “prop for training.”
Unsatisfied with the explanation, prosecutors provided U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper with a copy of the FBI’s report featuring analysis by the Quantico Laboratory.
Dated Wednesday, the report materials that authorities claim the FBI found when searching Robertson’s home less than a month ago on June 29: a powder sample, a metal pipe with two end caps, a fuse and a piece of a fuse.
