{"id":400021,"date":"2026-09-15T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400021\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:12:08","slug":"new-details-emerge-on-fort-pierce-man-found-with-several-explosives-in-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400021\/","title":{"rendered":"New details emerge on Fort Pierce man found with several explosives in his home"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 More details have emerged regarding the Fort Pierce man who was found with several military-grade explosives inside of his home.<\/p>\n

According to the arrest affidavit, SLCSO <\/a>deputies served Keith Anthony Morrone<\/a> with a temporary risk protection order at his Balsam Drive residence in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n

Morrone allowed deputies to search his vehicle and his residence, where they found green wooden case with 7 items that resembled military style hand grenades. Five of the items were deemed to be more consistent with flash bangs.<\/p>\n

After everyone \u2014 including Morrone \u2014 evacuated the residence, the SLCSO bomb team was called in to handle the situation.<\/p>\n

See also: Boca Raton woman charged after allegedly hurling stones at occupied vehicles, police say<\/a><\/p>\n

While talking with deputies, Morrone admitted to modifying the grenades, according to the affidavit. When asked if there was anything inside of the grenades, Morrone said \u201cI don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything in there,\u201d SLCSO says.<\/p>\n

The explosives were eventually safely removed from the house, but another search of the home discovered one foot of canon fuse connected to a small glass container containing black powder, creating a home-made destructive device.<\/p>\n

Based on the evidence, Morrone was charged with 8 counts of making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempting to do so. He was brought to the St. Lucie County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 More details have emerged regarding the Fort Pierce man who was found with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-400021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}