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3 Arrested In Connection With Pair Of Suspected Bombs In Lakeland

News Channel 8 photo by JOE MARTIN

The city parking garage at Main Street and Massachusetts Avenue is closed while police investigate.

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Published: March 9, 2009

Updated: 03/09/2009 09:49 pm

LAKELAND - A former and two current students at Southeastern University in Lakeland turned themselves in to be charged in connection with two explosive devices found Monday at a Lakeland city parking garage.

All three will face second-degree felonies of making or possessing a destructive device or attempting to do so, the Lakeland Police Department said.

Investigators detonated one of the devices and neutralized a second Monday. Police summoned a bomb squad from Tampa and the state fire marshal's office to the garage at Main Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

Investigators believe someone set off another device this weekend and were reviewing surveillance video for clues.

The police department said the three men and their attorneys came to the Lakeland police station about 6:15 p.m.

Each cooperated with investigators and admitted making the devices and putting them at the garage, police said. Police have not yet released details about the makeup or explosive power of the devices.

Arrested were Matthew B. Emmons, 24, of St. Petersburg; Daniel Worthy Terry, 23, of Lakeland; and Nathan Paul Slaymaker, 19, of Orlando.

Emmons is a graduate of Southeastern University, and Terry and Slaymaker are students there.

Police said the men would be taken to the Polk County Jail after being booked at the police station.

Tribune reporters Neil Johnson and Josh Poltilove and News Channel 8 reporter Jeff Patterson contributed to this report.

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