YUBA CITY, Calif. — A California man is facing nearly two dozen charges after officers conducting a traffic stop in Yuba City found multiple pipe bombs in his pickup.
A deputy pulled over Jeffrey Dickerson, 61, just before 11 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release posted to the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office official Facebook page.
The deputy noticed a can of pepper spray in Dickerson’s Toyota Tacoma and later learned that the man was a felon prohibited from possessing the chemical irritant, KXTV reported.
After arresting Dickerson for the pepper spray, deputies searched the truck, finding “what appeared to be five pipe bombs, a black powder handgun and other components that could possibly be used to make destructive devices,” the sheriff’s office stated.
After securing the area, the sheriff’s office requested the assistance of a neighboring county’s bomb squad, which confirmed the five devices as pipe bombs, gathered the devices and “rendered them safe,” The Sacramento Bee reported.
Jail records show Dickerson was booked on 22 charges, including 13 counts of reckless possession of an explosive or destructive device on a public street, the newspaper reported.
Dickerson, whose bail was set at $500,000, is slated to appear in Sutter Superior Court on Wednesday, KXTV reported.
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