FORT BENNING - A Fort Benning soldier was arrested Friday on charges stemming from the theft of 300 sticks of high-grade explosives from a paving company in Columbus earlier this year. <br>
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The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported that 23-year-old Army Specialist Ricky Todd Godsey was arrested on charges of felony theft by taking and possession of destructive devices charges. <br>
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Authorities say Godsey, of Watauga, Tennessee, was one of at least three people involved in the crime. Godsey was bound over to Muscogee County Superior Court under $110,000 bond Friday morning. <br>
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Calls to Fort Benning were not immediately returned. <br>
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Last month, authorities recovered 275 pounds of stolen explosives in a wooded area on the grounds of Fort Benning. <br>
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Almost 150 sticks of ammonium nitrate, stored in five 55-pound boxes and used to clear rock during road construction, had been missing from Robinson Paving Company in nearby Columbus. The explosives were discovered missing in May, but Columbus police Major Ricky Boren said the theft could have happened as early as mid-March. <br>
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Ammonium nitrate is the explosive used to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Boren said the company used it to blast rock for road construction.
