Osborn Pleads Guilty

An area man entered a guilty plea to several charges in connection to explosives found in his vehicle.

41-year-old Anthony Osborn, of Blue Rock, plead guilty in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court to four felony counts of unlawful possession of a dangerous ordinance.

Four counts of illegal manufacturing or processing of explosives will be dropped at the time of sentencing.

Judge Kelly Cottrill ordered a pre-sentence investigation in the case and bond was continued at $100,000.

Zanesville Police Captain Tony Coury said Osborn was arrested in October 2015 during a traffic stop where an officer found four crude pipe bombs with fuses in the back seat of the vehicle. A small amount of marijuana was also recovered.

Coury said Osborn told police he wasn’t planning on doing any physical harm to humans with the bombs, but claimed he constructed the explosives because he wasn’t permitted to own a firearm because of previous arrests.