Overview
- West Bountiful ordered a mandatory evacuation Monday within about 2,000 feet of a home near 1450 North and 1100 West, with a shelter open at 1930 N. 600 West.
- Bomb technicians spent about two hours removing the explosives and neighbors were allowed back home afterward, with officials reporting no injuries.
- The police response began Saturday with a domestic dispute call whose arrestee told officers his 80-year-old father kept explosives at the property.
- Officers say the father, Dwayne Raymond Hughes, showed them a container of dynamite next to a 2,500-gallon diesel tank, along with an empty explosives-marked box and fireworks in the yard.
- Investigators determined the dynamite was manufactured in the 1980s and likely stored without authorization, and Hughes is jailed without bail on explosives, fireworks, and reckless endangerment charges.