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Eugene

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Sun May 29, 2016, 03:30 PM May 2016

U.S. agents arrest suspect in 2007 North Carolina Walmart bombing

Source: Reuters

World | Sat May 28, 2016 4:38pm EDT

U.S. agents arrest suspect in 2007 North Carolina Walmart bombing

BY MARCUS E. HOWARD

A man suspected of planting a pipe bomb that exploded near propane tanks inside a Walmart store in rural North Carolina in 2007 has been arrested nine years after the crime thanks to dogged police work, court documents obtained on Saturday showed.

A fingerprint on a shopping cart led federal authorities to arrest Larry Bowlsby, 49, on Tuesday in Missouri, North Carolina television station WLOS reported on Thursday. The identification came nearly a decade after the explosion on Sept. 26, 2007 at a Walmart in Sylva, North Carolina, about 50 miles west of Asheville in the western part of the state.

The bomb exploded in the sporting goods section of the store near small camping propane cylinders, sending shrapnel from the device close to at least one shopper, according to the court filing, which did not address a possible motive.

Authorities found the fingerprint in a national database and matched it to Bowlsby, who had been arrested and fingerprinted in at least two separate cases since 2007, including possession of explosives at a Walmart in Colorado.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-carolina-bomb-idUSKCN0YJ0OZ
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U.S. agents arrest suspect in 2007 North Carolina Walmart bombing (Original Post) Eugene May 2016 OP
"did not discuss a possible motive" They mean he's not a secret Syrian refugee? ck4829 May 2016 #1
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