Officials Track Down Large Quantity Of Fertilizer
Posted June 9, 2010 10:19 pm.
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Police have located a man who purchased a large amount of explosive-grade fertilizer last month.
Shortly after composite sketches were released Wednesday afternoon, the man contacted security officials.
Police recovered the 60 25kg bags ammonium nitrate in question from two separate Toronto addresses.
They say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the purchase of the compound, and they don’t expect to lay any charges.
Officials had security concerns due to the upcoming G8 and G20 summits.
The ammonium nitrate is the same compound that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people. Members of a homegrown terror cell, the so-called Toronto 18, have also been convicted for trying to build ammonium nitrate fertilizer bombs in 2006.
Federal regulations require anyone purchasing ammonium nitrate to provide ID, but staff at the Vineyard Growers Co-op in Lincoln, Ont., in the Niagara Region, didn’t record the man’s name on May 26. He had told staff he was buying the product on behalf of a regular customer but staff later learned the two weren’t affiliated.
