US Sailor Stopped With “Bomb-Making Materials”

San Diego’s NBC News affiliate reports:

A sailor was stopped by Navy security at the main gate of NAS North Island in Coronado Tuesday morning with bomb-making materials in his pickup truck, a base spokesperson confirmed.

Navy Security Forces stopped the sailor at the request of Naval Criminal Investigative Service, according to base spokesperson Kevin Dixon. The bomb-making materials were not assembled into an explosive device, Dixon said.

The sailor is in NCIS custody, and the agency said it would not be immediately releasing details about him, the bomb-making materials he had or the charges he is facing.

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— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) February 16, 2022