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Grand Junction Police arrested a man early Saturday morning with blasting caps, a sawed-off shotgun and other people's credit cards.

All items were rendered safe by bomb squad members. Sheriff Class in a Facebook post said to not touch or move items that are believed to be explosive. "In situations like this, if you ever find items that you believe to be explosive or not even sure what they are, please do not touch or move them. Contact your local authorities and let those with experience take care of those items so no one gets hurt. Thank you to the members of the Bomb Squad that assisted with this today. Your help is always welcomed and appreciated." - Cooper County Sheriff Chris Class

We have never had this before in this country. >> just a reminder, people have died within the last year receiving bombs in the mail, fedex in austin, texas. ultimately, the person that carried that out was caught because of the surveillance footage around where he was when he mailed these. that's the type of thing they will be looking at now. >> i have to continue to believe that we are getting very close. the news last night they reported on, they were looking at the mail facility down in florida. here is things that jump out at me. i agree with a lot of the other assessment. these devices w...

Blasting cap and put something together to make it look -- i talked to special agent bomb technicians from the fbi in quantico, those packages screamed for attention, like somebody wanted you to know there was a bomb there. >> let's put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. there's two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast iron pipe. the package becomes a shrapnel. four components. a power supply, typically a battery, i...

Cases. officials are saying these were potential explosive devices. yesterday, they were saying they were bombs, so what's the difference? >> that's a really tough line to walk the fact of the matter is to make an explosionive device, it must have power, a power source, an explosive material, wires and a detonator a blasting cap. heat shock friction. that's what bomb technicians think about. that's what it takes to ignite one of these devices. some of that could be simply unscrewing the end of a pipe. right? the friction from unscrewing that pipe, that cap of the pipe can actually cause enough...