Reply #1: This was the second theft at that company

[Warpy]

The first one was described as an amateur job and the material (half a ton of explosives grade ammonium nitrate) was discovered in a canyon by a hiker a week or so later. Whoever did that one probably stashed it while he looked for a buyer. It was just a bolt cutter job that time, with a lot of the site disturbed before they found what they were looking for.

This time they didn't go into huge detail, but said the theft was a professional job, that they knew exactly what they were after, and that nothing else was disturbed.

The facility is out in the middle of godforsaken nowhere west of the city, down a long and miserable washboarded dirt road, secured by chain link fences topped with razor wire. Its isolation and the lack of signs save for a few "danger, high explosives, no admittance" signs on the chain link fence were long considered security enough.

Both thefts happened during weekends, and both thefts went undiscovered for an unknown length of time. The material could have been stolen any time from Friday afternoon to mid Monday morning.

The point is that this stuff undoubtedly had a buyer waiting, and can be just about anyplace by now. I'm glad that truck was scanned. I hope they're scanning a lot of them.