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Fired air traffic controller arrested in bomb case

Authorities said they captured a fired air traffic controller suspected of planting bombs at homes in Colorado to get even with his former employer.
/ Source: The Associated Press

Authorities captured a fired air traffic controller suspected of planting bombs at homes around Grand Junction to get even with his former employer.

Robert Burke, 54, was arrested in Provo, Utah, late Wednesday by police and federal officers acting on a tip, authorities said. He awaited an appearance in federal court Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Burke was wanted in a series of explosions March 24 at the Grand Junction-area homes of three people who work for Serco Group, a company that operates the control tower at the city’s Walker Field Airport.

Officers disarmed bombs found at the Grand Junction-area homes of a fourth Serco worker and a Federal Aviation Administration employee.

A similar bomb exploded in February on the roof of a Serco office in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

No one was injured in any of the blasts.

Burke, a 10-year Serco employee, was fired two years ago while working at Walker Field. Serco would not say why.