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NC air traffic controller accused of having weapon of mass destruction

By Nicole Chavez and Joe Sutton, CNN

Updated 1251 GMT (2051 HKT) November 11, 2017

• Police received a call that someone had an explosive at a Charlotte home
• Air traffic controller and one other man charged

(CNN)A North Carolina air traffic controller was arrested Friday for allegedly having a weapon of mass destruction, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

Paul George Dandan, 30, a worker at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, was charged with acquiring, possessing and transporting a weapon of mass destruction, police said in a statement.

Last week, police received a 911 call that someone had a homemade explosive at a Charlotte home. When officers arrived, they found a homemade pipe bomb, authorities said.

Investigators said another man, 39-year-old Derrick Fells, built the bomb to "use it against a neighbor with whom he was involved in an ongoing dispute." But Fells changed his mind and gave Dandan the device, police said.

Both men were arrested Friday, but it's unclear how they knew each other.

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Fells was charged with three counts of manufacturing a weapon of mass destruction and one count of possession of a weapon of mass destruction, police said.

Police did not say what Dandan's intentions were or whether he took the bomb to the airport.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Dandan's access to the airport "was terminated."