August 3, 1995
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CNN) -- James Rosencrans, who first testified last month before the federal grand jury investigating the Oklahoma City bombing, left town today after more questioning in the case.
It's believed he appeared again before the grand jury but he refused to comment on that when asked by reporters at the Oklahoma City Airport where he was accompanied by his girl friend and federal agents.
A CNN crew shot videotape of Rosencrans when he was picked up at his hotel by FBI agents Thursday morning. Rosencrans is an acquaintance of chief suspect Timothy McVeigh and was next door neighbor of McVeigh buddy James Fortier in Kingman, Arizona.
Fortier, who served in the Army with McVeigh, has been undergoing intense questioning for weeks, but has not yet testified before the grand jury which faces an August 11 deadline to indict McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the only other man now charged in the April 19 bombing resulting in 168 deaths.
Rosencrans said he was questioned for just five minutes the first time he appeared before the grand jury, apparently about a rifle he got from Fortier thought to have been stolen from an Arkansas gun dealer last year.
Other weapons and a safe deposit key believed to have been taken in that robbery were recovered in a search of Terry Nichols' Kansas home. Authorities have speculated the robbery may have been used to help finance the activities of the Oklahoma City bombers.
Rosencrans was returned to Oklahoma City after FBI agents found more than 150 pounds of ammonium nitrate, the same material used in the fertilizer bomb in the federal building attack, in the desert outside Kingman.
The FBI has theorized the ammonium nitrate found in the desert was part of a cache used to test the effectiveness of fertilizer bombs prior to April 19, a source told CNN.
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