Federal and state agents arrested five men during a series of weapons raids in northeast Alabama early Thursday, including one raid that forced the shutdown of a nearby school. Eric Kehn, a spokesman with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said agents were looking for «weapons and things along those lines,» but declined to elaborate. He said the sweep was continuing Thursday but would not say where, according to AP. The five unidentified men were arrested on federal warrants, Kehn said. They were expected to appear before a federal judge in Birmingham later Thursday. At least five bomb teams were on hand in case explosives were found. One of the raids in Collinsville was at a trailer and another was at a nearby house about a quarter-mile from Collinsville School. School officials said they decided to cancel classes for about 650 students from grades kindergarten through 12 because of the swarm of police vehicles. «We were going to delay school but because of the possibility of explosives at the residences, we felt it was safer not to have school,» DeKalb Sheriff Jimmy Harris said. -- SPA
