Brad Spafford, 36, from Isle of Wight County, Virginia, has been apprehended and charged with having the largest stockpile of homemade explosives ever found by the FBI. A federal judge approved his bond at a hearing on 30 December but suspended the order while awaiting a government appeal.

FBI investigation of a Virginia man led to what the agency calls its largest-ever seizure by number of finished explosive devices.

A man was found with possibly the largest supply of "finished explosive devices" ever seized in the history of the FBI, officials said.