(Above: picture posted by Jason Luecke)
A sometimes Spring Hill resident posted a picture last week on Facebook of what appeared to be materials to make a bomb.
Along with the picture of components for an apparent pipe bomb, Jason Luecke, 29, wrote on March 14 that he was “guided to build” the device after watching the news.
Spring Hill police saw the post and alerted Metro Police in Nashville where Luecke was living, and the Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms. After a search of his residence, he was arrested and charged with conducting a hoax of a prohibited weapon.
Luecke’s Facebook Post reads:
“This is what I have been guided to make, after watching the news this morning I had a heavy heart and have to believe that if I was guided to build this then an actual terrorist could easily do the same thing. I thank God for giving me such a good heart and the will to do the right thing. Whoever has guided me to make this has a lot if power and a grudge against America as we know it I believe so please pray for them and hope that they do not have the plans to harm anyone’s life.”
Officers checked Luecke’s residence and found the device, but said it did not contain any explosives or components needed for an IED. Luecke has “bounced around” various rental residences in Spring Hill and has a history of domestic and theft-related offenses there, according to the SHPD. Through the course of their investigation, SHPD detectives determined that Luecke resided currently in Nashville and alerted Metro Police and the ATF to his activities and history.
He was booked into the Davidson County Jail on $25,000 bond.
“We picked up on it on Facebook, and when it started we thought it could be something in the city [of Spring Hill],” Public Information Officer Lt. Justin Whitwell said. “It was just somebody we had dealt with before. He is not a fan of Spring Hill.”
