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Indy man arrested after explosives found in home

Indianapolis - Police have arrested a man after finding chemicals and equipment in his apartment that they believe were being used to make dangerous weapons.

Joseph Bagley, 26, was arrested Friday morning at his apartment in Indianapolis. Police say they found chemicals, equipment, gas masks, air purification masks and unlabeled jars of chemicals and powders in Bagley's apartment. Police also saw soldering equipment in plain view, as well as batteries taped together, wires and putty material attached to a metal tube.

Marion County Haz Mat were called to the scene and technicians determined that the chemicals and materials were being used to make a regulated explosive.

Eyewitness News has learned that police have confiscated Bagley's computer.

The apartment complex manager told police that a carpet cleaner contractor had written a note saying that Bagley's apartment looked like a "terrorist cell." Police say they found literature about Al Qaeda in Bagley's apartment, as well as books on Muslim names, understanding United States documents and about Saddam Hussein's bomb maker.

Bagley was arrested on a charge of criminal recklessness. He told police that he had been mixing chemicals. Police also say he was a former electrical engineering student at a local university.