Members of the CMPD Bomb Squad also responded and confirmed that it was a homemade pipe bomb.
Derrick Fells, 30, constructed the device and admitted that he had made the bomb in order to use it against a neighbor during their ongoing dispute.
(Fell)
Fells changed his mind and gave it away to Paul George Dandon, 30, who was a full-time employee of the Federal Aviation Administration working out of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
(Dandon)
“The FAA employee only had access to the offsite air traffic control tower and had no access to the restricted areas of the terminal or ramp,” airport officials said in a news release. “He did not have access to any aircraft at the Airport.”
Charlotte Douglas International Airport Air Traffic Controller Arrested for Having Weapon of Mass Destruction