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Roughly 100
residents of the Zuni Village RV Park in Kingman, Arizona, were
ordered evacuated Thursday as bomb squad technicians began to
search the dwelling and storage shed of the suspect, Glenn
Franklin Jones, police said.
Jones, 59, described by Nevada authorities as a disgruntled
former hospital worker, was believed responsible for two bomb
blasts on Wednesday night that rocked the tiny farming community
of Panaca in southeastern Nevada, near the Utah border.
One bomb went off in the car Jones was driving, killing him, and
a second device exploded at a nearby home, damaging the
residence, but authorities said there were no other serious
injuries.
Investigators sent to Jones' residence at the RV park in
northwestern Arizona on Thursday morning found “a significant
amount of explosives” in his motor home, said Rusty Cooper,
deputy chief of the Kingman police department.
The materials seized included numerous home-made bombs in
various stages of construction, Cooper said.
Bomb technicians on Friday expanded their search to Jones’
storage unit, put police later said nothing dangerous was found
inside and they expected to finish their sweep of Jones' motor
home by day's end.
Jones, who had lived at the Arizona trailer park for several
months, had worked as night nurse at the Grover C. Dils Medical
Center in the Nevada town of Caliente, just south of Panaca.
He apparently had targeted the house of a married couple who
also worked as nurses at the hospital, one of them as the
nursing director.
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Andrew Hay)
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