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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 12 July 2017
Cadaver dogs used in search for 4 missing men

a student at Loyola Univer- Peter Dragani, a Bensalem
sity in Baltimore. real estate agent who said
Patrick disappeared on he coached Cosmo Di-
Wednesday, the other Nardo in a youth football
three on Friday. league and has stayed
Sturgis and Meo are long- in touch with the family
time friends who work at over the years, described
the Sturgis family’s con- the jailed young man as a
struction business, and Fin- “model citizen.”
occhiaro is a mutual friend, “He comes from a good
Sturgis’ father has said. family, a strong, very strict
Police have received “a family,” he told The Asso-
ton of leads” and are mak- ciated Press. “I never met
ing progress, but the entire anybody that didn’t like
90-acre (0.14-square-mile) him.”
property is of interest to in- Asked if the four missing
vestigators, Weintraub said. men could still be alive,
He said investigators were Weintraub said, “I think it’s
also working across the very important to hang on
county. to hope.”
This photo provided by the Bucks County DA’s Office in
Doylestown, Pa., shows Cosmo DiNardo, who was arrested The farm property is owned The FBI, state police and at
Monday, July 10, 2017, on a charge of possession of firearms by by DiNardo’s parents, An- least five local law enforce-
a person prohibited from possessing a firearm. His arrest comes tonio and Sandra DiNardo. ment agencies were also
as the FBI uses heavy equipment to search his family’s sprawling Neither the DiNardos nor taking part in the search.
farm property in Solebury Township during a search for four men their son’s lawyer could be agencies were also taking
who are missing. reached for comment.
(Bucks County District Attorney’s Office via AP) part in the search.q

Continued from Front to dig deeper and passed
up buckets of dirt that were
Solebury Township is situ- then screened with sifters.
ated about 30 miles (48 ki- “We want to be careful not
lometers) north of Philadel- to miss the tiniest piece of
phia. evidence,” Weintraub said
Aerial TV footage on Tues- at an earlier briefing.
day showed law enforce- The missing are 22-year-
ment officers crowded old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-
around a deep trench — a old Tom Meo, 19-year-old
backhoe parked next to it Dean Finocchiaro and
— as officers used shovels 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick,

Explosion not being called

act of domestic terror: FBI

By J. JUOZAPAVICIUS ing the person questions.
Associated Press “We don’t know if it was a
BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Feder- disgruntled employee, an
al authorities said Tuesday act of terrorism or some-
that they are no longer in- one playing games,” Rice
vestigating a pipe bomb said at a news conference
explosion that damaged earlier Tuesday before the
a northeast Oklahoma Air person of interest was in
Force recruiting station as custody. A device was set
a possible act of domestic off around 10:30 p.m. Mon-
terrorism, adding that the day in front of the recruiting
blast could be the work of center, which was closed,
a disgruntled employee or federal authorities said. No
a prank. one was hurt.
FBI agent Jessi Rice said A spokeswoman for the FTA
the explosion in the Tulsa had said the blast was be-
suburb of Bixby is not be- ing treated as a possible
ing called domestic terror- act of domestic terrorism
ism because investigators out of “an abundance of
have not determined a caution,” because of its
motive, but that a person proximity to the recruiting
of interest has been taken office. The Air Force recruit-
into custody at a Tulsa-area ing station is in a commer-
apartment complex. Rice cial area that also houses
said she could not provide restaurants, financial plan-
the individual’s name and ning firms and other busi-
that investigators were ask- nesses. q