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BOYNTON BEACH-Police arrested two men who were driving around with potentially deadly pipe bombs as well as gloves and masks in their car, authorities said.Investigators found two of the devices in the car and later discovered a third pipe bomb and bombmaking materials in the suburban Lake Worth apartment shared by the suspects, Raymond Kramer, 22, and Aaron Spoerke, 21.Spoerke admitted to making the bombs with Kramer and told police he likes to "throw them into canals and watch them explode." Police found no further evidence of what the men planned to do with the bombs, but federal authorities ruled out any kind of domestic terrorism.A Boynton Beach police officer pulled over Kramer's gold Nissan Sentra about 2:20 a.m. and spotted the bombs inside a Taco Bell bag on the floorboard.The road was closed off from the 500 block of N. Federal Highway to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for more than three hours while the sheriff's office bomb squad removed and exploded the bombs in a safe location.The pipe bombs, each made of PVC piping, end caps, duct tape, a fuse and gunpowder, could have caused serious injury or death, authorities said."If this explodes in close quarters...it will take your hand off and depending on how the fragmentation comes off, it could kill you," said Lt. Ralf Kreling, head of the sheriff's office bomb squad."PVC will be flying off at 800 to 1,000 feet per second. You have something like that coming at you at that speed, it's going to tear through your body."Had a bomb exploded in the Sentra, the blast pressure itself would have probably caused serious injuries to Kramer, Spoerke and the two other 21-year-old men inside the car,Kreling said.The other two men were not charged.Police found the bombs during a routine traffic stop.After the Sentra pulled out of Boat Club Park on North Federal Highway about 2:20 a.m., Boynton Beach Police Officer Vincent Haugh saw someone throw something out the window and made the stop.When Haugh asked for identification, none of the occupants had any. He asked them to step out of the car. That's when Haugh saw what looked like two pipe bombs on the floorboard, both about the size of a fist.Police also found masks, gloves, flashlights, two small knives and about 15-feet of PVC pipe. Investigators found the third bomb and materials when they got consent to search the suspects' apartment. All the men said they used the gloves and flashlights for work. Kramer and Spoerke were booked into the county jail on charges of making or possessing a destructive device. They are not currently facing any federal charges, according to a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which assisted with the investigation.Spoerke told investigators he got the PVC pipe from his plumbing job. He and Kramer got gun powder at a local gun store and fuses from a fireworks store. Spoerke said the other two men in the car did not know the devices were in the vehicle.
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