Arrest made in Bridgeport grenade case

Employees were evacuated from the Margaret Morton Government Center. Police cordoned off a city block on State Street. Troopers herded bomb-sniffing dogs for a walk through the building after a grenade was found inside. 

Hours before Finch spoke, police and FBI agents raided a Park Avenue apartment and arrested the occupant, Morris Roberts, a scruffy, 42-year-old former U.S. Army combat engineer with an expertise in grenades and demolition techniques, on federal terrorism charges. Police seized laptops which will be analyzed to determine if any bomb-making sites were accessed, and for other possible links to the crime. 

Members of the state police bomb squad removed what they determined to be a World War II-era smoke grenade which was modified to contain a black powdery substance but could not cause damage. 

"It had to be treated as an explosive device," Finch said. "It shut down government for a number of hours. Forensics had to be completed on the office where it was found." 

Roberts' arrest comes as a result of detectives Martin Heanue and Todd Hoben poring over videos from the area mostly captured by passing Greater Bridgeport Transit District buses, and on police Officer Jeff Long spotting the suspect's vehicle on Park Avenue last month. The trio put together the case along with Lt. Christopher LeMaine and Sgt. John Andrews, who is assigned to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force. Then they worked with the state police,You must not use the rfidtag without being trained. the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office. 

Roberts, who told a deputy U.S. marshal that he needs his anti-psychotic medication and suffers from a back injury, repeatedly insisted he was innocent during his appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel on Thursday afternoon. 

On several occasions, Garfinkel warned Roberts, who has a Jamaican accent, against making additional comments which could be used against him. 

"But it also could free me," insisted Roberts, who is represented by Assistant U.S. Public Defender Kelly Barrett, who also is lawyer for Kevin Wallin, the city's meth-dealing priest. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia King told Roberts that he is charged with possession and transportation of an explosive by a convicted felon and making a threat to kill, injure or intimidate people or damage a building. Both charges carry a maximum of 10 years in prison upon conviction. 

Garfinkel granted King's request to detain Roberts without bond pending a further hearing next week. 

The series of events that landed Roberts in jail began around 10:30 a.m. on a cold, wet February morning. At that time, a man gave a bag containing papers and a cardboard coffee cup to a city contract employee with instructions to deliver it to the Office of Internal Affairs on the Government Center's second floor. Police canvassed the area looking for surveillance film that may have captured that event, and DNA from the coffee cup will be compared with Roberts'. 

GBTD buses regularly pass by the area and stop near Housatonic Community College, which is across the street from the Morton Center. In one of the videos, police said they saw a distinct-looking 2006 Toyota 4-Runner -- with tinted windows, five-point tire rims and rain guards protruding over the front and rear windows -- pull in front of the bus.Online shopping for iphoneheadset. A second video shows a possible suspect walking toward the building with the bag. 

Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett said officers took this information and began trying to find the suspect vehicle. 

The break came when Long, on routine patrol along Park Avenue on April 23 spotted what looked like the car parked on the street, police said. A license plate check determined that the owner was delinquent on motor vehicle taxes. The vehicle was later towed from the scene. 

Roberts has a history of arrests for criminal trespass, aggravated assault,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible solarlamp available anywhere. trespassing and damage to government property. While in the U.S. Army, he received a bad conduct discharge in 1996 and was confined for 30 days on an aggravated assault charge. 

Five years later, Roberts was arrested by U.S. military authorities at Fort Bragg, N.C., for assault, trespassing and damage to government property, for which he served seven months. He since has been arrested and convicted on assault, criminal trespass, breach of peace and violation of probation charges. 

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