A Jamaican man appeared before a U.S. court on Wednesday, after being arrested a day earlier for trying to board a plane with bomb components in his luggage. Kevin Brown, who was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday, made an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Karla Spaulding on Wednesday. A bond hearing was scheduled for Thursday, when further details about the case are likely to be made public. Brown was stopped as he tried to board a flight to Jamaica when a “behavior detection officer” spotted him acting suspiciously. In an affidavit, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Kelly Boaz said a search of Brown's luggage revealed a variety of bomb components, including galvanized pipes, bottles containing air gun pellets, a model rocket igniter, batteries, lighters, lighter fluid and two bottles of nitromethane – a cleaning agent that can be used to make explosives. Investigators said they also found bomb-making instructions in Brown's backpack. “Brown told us, among other things, that he bought the items in the baggage in Gainesville, Florida, and intended to use them to build a pipe bomb,” Boaz's affidavit said. “Brown initially said that he was going to detonate the device on a tree stump in Jamaica but later told us he was going to show friends how to build explosive devices like the kind he saw in Iraq,” the statement said. FBI spokesman David Couvertier said the agency was still trying to confirm aspects of Brown identity and history, including his date of birth and whether he has ever been to Iraq. The FBI said initial record checks indicated Brown was in the United States legally.
