AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta man is facing charges after authorities detonated explosive material they allegedly found in his apartment.
Jeremy Upp was taken to the Kennebec County jail where he remained held on a charge of criminal use of explosives on $25,000 bail Thursday night.
Joseph Thomas, acting state fire marshal, said his office executed a search warrant on Upp’s apartment at 12:45 p.m. Thursday after the 36-year-old Upp’s probation officer expressed concern.
The Maine State Police bomb squad detonated unidentified material Thomas said was found in Upp’s unit.
Upp’s live-in girlfriend, Amanda Bechard, tells the Kennebec Journal that the materials seized were purchased at a fireworks store.
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