Nashville police were warned in 2019 that Anthony Warner was making a bomb in his RV, but nothing was done to stop him.
Warner’s girlfriend told Nashville police on August 21, 2019, that he “built bombs in the RV trailer in his home,” according to a report Tuesday in The Tennessean.
City police handed over the fee to the FBI and ATF.
But when authorities arrived at Warren’s door, no one answered, and a subsequent request to search the property was denied, reports The Tennessean.
Warner’s bombing then continued unhindered until Christmas morning when he detonated explosives in the vehicle and leveled a piece of downtown in Nashville.
From records checked by the newspaper, it appears that Raymond Throckmorton, a lawyer for the woman, initially called police and said Warner’s unnamed associate was concerned about comments he made – and did not want two guns. which according to her does not belong to Warner.
Throckmorton told police Warner “talks regularly about the military and making bombs,” and “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” the reports said.
Police saw the RV in Warren’s driveway, but it was fenced so they did not enter.
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property,” Metropolitan Police spokesman Don Aaron said in a statement to the newspaper.
Nashville PD passed the information to the federations, but “the FBI announced that they had checked their possession and did not find a record on Warner at all,” Aaron said.
On August 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense also reported that “checks on Warner were all negative,” Aaron told The Tennessean.
“At no stage was evidence of a crime found and no further action was taken,” the spokesman said. “No additional information about Warner came to the attention of the department or the FBI after August 2019.”
Warner, 63, appeared on the radar around 6:30 a.m. Christmas when he dropped a bomb that killed him, injured three others and damaged 41 buildings.
The blast, outside an AT&T facility, disrupted communications systems through parts of the Southeast.