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Overheard jail conversation leads to explosives discovery

Deputy overheard inmate asking friend to remove bombs from his home

By C1 Staff

STEPHENS COUNTY, Okla. — After a Stephens County deputy overheard an inmate’s conversation, law enforcement made an explosive discovery.

Texomas reports that a deputy overheard inmate Thomas Jordan making a phone call to a friend, where Jordan told the friend to remove explosives from his home.

Law enforcement searched Jordan’s house, finding more than 20 pipe and cricket bombs.

The explosives were disposed of.