he pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face. when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, that s a rape kit. police now suspected graham was responsible for the murder of gary elwood and the sexual assault of janet haynes, crimes that occurred 18 years earlier in the very same neighborhood. at the time of gary elwood s murder, graham was living with his parents just a couple of
he s down. he s down. a very tense situation for the officers and everyone in that community. we are told the plan was to take over the courthouse and take hostages. he had a water supply and flex cuffs. they found devices, homemade explosives. they were very, very cautious when they entered that home. phil, i understand you talked to one of his neighbors. what do we know about this guy? terry sweeney lives a few houses down. he said he saw the s.w.a.t. team there. they were familiar with him. they had been there before. that s why the caution of entering. they thought it was booby trapped. he said he was shy and shocked he was involved on this and didn t put the entire blame on
explosi explosives, potentially. s.w.a.t. teams, explosive exp t experts are now on the scene. going to take hours and hours. they re carefully trying to make sure that it s going to be safe. what are you hearing about that? well, wolf, as you mentioned, they are being very cautious about entering that home because they have reason to believe that it is booby trapped. we know authorities including the atf, the georgia bureau of investigation, as well as the local forsythe county sheriffs office is on the scene there at the suspect s home. as pamela mentioned, this man came to do damage, body armor, flex cuffs, hand grenades. he had a homemade spike strip. every indication he planned to take over the courthouse and take hostages. getting back to the home, local officials tell us it s believed he had not lived in that home for as much as ten days. there s still no motive that they have uncovered. they are continuing to investigate dennis mark, the 48-year-old background. officials say
full frontal assault and was carrying plastic ties in case he made it inside. the officer was shot in the leg and he s still in the hospital. police are on the scene trying to figure out a motive in this case. pamela, stand by. nick valencia, our reporter is on the ground. what s the latest from where you are? reporter: wolf, right now we know that authorities, including the atf and georgia bureau of investigation are at dennis marx home but they are being very cou cautious because they have not yet entered because of what the suspect had on, body armor, flex cuffs, ammunition, police believe that he intended to take over the courthouse and we know according to police he has not lived there for at least ten days. it s booby-trapped with explosives with the intent of responding officers.
learning. we believe he is associated with this sovereign citizens movement, wolf. and also we learned that he is a former tsa agent, but more than a decade ago, from 2002 to 2003, he worked for the tsa as a screener and that is all the information we have on that. obviously that was some time ago. but it is interesting to note that he has this anti-government he was part of this group with the anti-government sentiment, wolf. as we know this morning just before 10:00 a.m., he wanted to wreak havoc at that courthouse. we re told he came prepared, golf, with several hand grenades, came armed with an assault rifle. he was wearing a gas mask. he had body armor on and wanted to do serious damage inside that courthouse today according to officials, wolf. a local sheriff told me an hour ago or so he had hundreds of rounds of ammunition with him as well. nick, you re there on the ground. there s deep concern that sheriff told me that the house, he left it booby trapped with