CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An air traffic controller at Charlotte Douglas International Airport received a homemade pipe bomb from his roommate, police said.
The two Charlotte residents were charged with manufacturing and possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers responded to 315 Minitree Lane near Mount Holly Road after someone called 911 about someone who was in possession of a homemade explosive device.
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.
Fells changed his mind and gave it away to Paul George Dandan, 30, who was a full-time employee of the Federal Aviation Administration working out of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.