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Former air controller arrested in Colorado bombings
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS(CNN) -- The fired air traffic controller suspected of planting bombs at the homes of his former co-workers last month has been arrested in Utah, Colorado police announced Thursday. Robert Burke, 54, was picked up late Wednesday near Provo, Utah, on a federal warrant charging him with planting the bombs in and around Grand Junction, Colorado. Police disarmed three of the bombs, but the other two detonated, damaging the houses. No one was injured in the March 24 incidents. (Full story) Burke worked for Serco Group, which operates the Grand Junction airport control tower. Burke was an air-traffic controller at Walker Field Airport Authority and worked for Serco for 10 years until he was dismissed in 2004. Acting on a tip from The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a team of law enforcement officers from Utah and Colorado located Burke and arrested him without incident in a Wal-Mart parking lot, a police news release said. "It is phenomenal that we were able to bring this man to justice so quickly," Grand Junction interim Police Chief Bill Gardner said in the news release. "We can all put our fears to rest knowing that he is not at large." On February 1, a bomb detonated on the roof of a Serco office in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. No one was hurt in the bombing, which had "strong similarities" to the Grand Junction bombs, according to Kenny Spann, the resident agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 
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