Police found more than a dozen improvised explosive devices in the residence of a Tennessee man who allegedly threatened to kill local public officials and law-enforcement officers. Polk County sheriff’s deputies went to the ramshackle wooded home of Kevin Wade O’Neal,

Officers found 14 improvised explosive devices while executing a search warrant for a man who had threatened to kill public officials and tried to detonate the devices as he was being arrested, Tennessee authorities said Saturday.

Sheriff's deputies in Tennessee found 14 improvised explosive devices in the home of a man who allegedly was planning to detonate them when law enforcement arrived, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.