North Carolina Police Charge Men With WMD Possession

Authorities in Kings Mountain, N.C., charged four men with WMD-related charges after searching a home laboratory, seizing chemicals and discovering a classic bomb-making guide called The Anarchist Cookbook, the Shelby Star reported Saturday.

Phillip Lovelace, Jonathan Garrett, Roger Carl McFarland and George Marion Adams were charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction after police discovered a bomb-making laboratory in their house. Police also suspect the men are connected to a house fire across the street from their home.

“We appear to be in the middle of the investigation,” said Kings Mountain Police Chief Melvin Proctor. The arrests might have prevented “something big,” Proctor said.

While searching the laboratory police discovered stores of potassium cyanide, a poison that could potentially be used to contaminate a water supply. It was famously used by the Jim Jones cult in 1978 to poison the fruit punch that killed over 900 cult members (Shannon Blosser, Shelby Star, Nov. 1).

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