Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives/

I hope they loose their money, I also hope that they person that stored the Explosives gets a fine or charged with some kind of miss management reference to the way that it was stored for it to have gotten stolen like that. Then for the Explosives to have turned up in the city streets of Riverside, on the Apron of a Fire Station, GREAT, I would Love to have been that Firefighter assigned to that station and just woke up to that call and walked out to the Suspicious box that had what looked like Flairs. But they were bleeding or leaking a clear liquid that might have been the thing that would have just about gave me a clear bowl Movement, how about you?

BSRancher

C O R R E C T I O N -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives/
Friday May 19, 6:12 pm ET

In the news release, ATF Offers $10,000 Reward to Solve Explosives Theft, issued earlier today by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first paragraph, first sentence should read, "announced today that ATF is offering a $10,000 reward" rather than "$5,000" as originally issued inadvertently.

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ATF Offers $10,000 Reward to Solve Explosives Theft

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Special Agent in Charge, Stephen K. Martin, of the San Francisco Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced today that ATF is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of explosives from an explosives storage magazine near Stateline, Nev.

Officials of the Vanderbilt Minerals Corp., operating the Sand Hill Mine at Stateline, reported the theft May 17. The Inyo County Sheriff's Department responded to the theft first and was joined by the Nye County Sheriff's Department and ATF. The company reported that an explosives storage magazine had been forced open and subsequently, 270 quarter-pound cast boosters, 25 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil and 10 rolls of igniter cord were stolen. The explosives storage magazine is located in a remote area off Highway 127 near the California-Nevada border.

"ATF is deeply concerned about this theft and the potential threat to public safety," Martin said. "We urge anyone having information about the theft to do the right thing and to come forward with information that will lead us to the recovery of these explosives."

"We will work with our ATF and Inyo County partners to do whatever we can to locate these stolen explosives," said Nye County Sheriff Anthony De Meo. "Working together, we have a history of recovering stolen explosives. Help us to keep the public safe, call the ATF Hotline."

Anyone having information about the theft should immediately call 1-888-ATF-BOMB (1-888-283-2662). All calls will be kept confidential.

ATF is the federal agency with jurisdiction for investigating explosives incidents. More information on ATF and its programs can be found at http://www.atf.gov/.

Contact: Nina Delgadillo, PIO, ATF

Pager: 888-416-4533