Drug Charges Hold Suspect in Bomb Chemicals Investigation

Comment: Good articles about thieves stealing uranium from the work place, is this Virginia future, people stealing uranium or yellowcake from uranium mines or milling?

Drug Charges Hold Suspect in Bomb Chemicals Investigation
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Updated: June 18, 2009 07:04 PM EDT

By Jenn Karlman

A man Green Bay police say had enough chemicals to make bombs is charged on several drug counts, but a judge Thursday reduced Steven Meyer's bail to $15,000.

Meyer, 27, remains in jail, charged with six crimes, including making methamphetamine.

Back in March, police responded to his home on Belmont Drive after a taxi cab driver called 911 saying Meyer pointed an assault rifle at him.

When officers arrived, they spotted chemicals inside but at the time they didn't have enough to charge him.

According to the criminal complaint filed Thursday, investigators found a laundry list of legal chemicals, including bottles of pseudoephedrine, which is the active ingredient in some over-the-counter medicine and also used to make meth. Police say they also found evidence of marijuana.

Officers say more charges may be filed if test results prove Meyer had enough to make a bomb.

"Those are parts of the puzzle that you have to put together, but first of all you have to know what the materials are that you're dealing with before you can come to that conclusion and put the case together," Captain Karl Fleury, Green Bay Police Department, said.

According to court documents, investigators found magnesium chloride, sulfur, and uranium, among a host of other chemicals. They also discovered gas masks, 19 computers, and books on explosives.

Right now the State Crime Lab is still running tests on most of the chemicals, but detectives say there is enough evidence right now to charge Meyer with trying to make meth.

"It's just going to take some time and we have to wait our turn but it can become frustrating when you're waiting on that," Fleury said.

Meyer's lawyer says he will talk more about the case after Meyer's arraignment in July.

If Meyer posts bond and is released from jail, he has to live with his parents.

The judge also told him he has to check in with police once a week and can't use a computer

Former K-25 worker sentenced to 6 years for theft of nuclear materials

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former worker at the old K-25 plant has been sentenced to six years in prison for taking old uranium enrichment equipment he was supposed to be destroying, and trying to sell it.

Roy Lynn Oakley pled guilty in January to Disclosure of Restricted Data under the Atomic Energy Act.

Thursday, he was sentenced to spend 6 years in prison and 3 years afterward on supervised release.

In 2006 and 2007, Oakley was working at the East Tennessee Technology Park, formerly the K-25 site, to break up and destroy barriers used in uranium enrichment.

The FBI set up a sting, in which Oakley turned over the materials to who he thought was an agent of the French government for $200,000. Prosecutors say he told the agent would sell the materials to an ally like France, but that he would not sell the materials to a country like North Korea.