Virginia Man Gets Eight Year Federal Prison Sentence for Weapons and Pipebombs
NORFOLK, Va. — Brad Kenneth Spafford kept 155 homemade pipe bombs in an unlocked garage alongside his children’s toys. He labeled some of them “lethal.” He stored a jar of military-grade primary explosive in the family freezer, between the Hot Pockets and the Go-Gurts. And when FBI agents asked him - for two hours and 45 minutes — whether anything at his Smithfield home might endanger the search team, he said no. On December 18, 2025, U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen sentenced the 37-year-old Virginia machinist to eight years in federal prison. Spafford pleaded guilty to two felony...
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