FBI seizes its largest ever cache of homemade explosives from alleged extremist's farm

The Justice Department is fighting to keep an anti-government extremist in custody after the FBI allegedly seized the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" in its history from a farm outside of Norfolk, VA.

Brad Kenneth Spafford, 36, was arrested on Dec. 17 for allegedly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. The single-count charge led to a search of Spafford's 20-acre farm, where federal investigators said they found a mass quantity of homemade explosives.

"When investigators searched his 20-acre property...