Arrests after incendiary device found under media van in SLC

Two men were arrested after a live incendiary device was discovered Friday under a news media vehicle parked near an occupied building in Salt Lake City, authorities said, prompting a federal investigation and a search of a home in the nearby Magna neighborhood that turned up additional explosives, firearms and illegal narcotics.

Salt Lake City police said bomb squads from the police department and the Unified Fire Authority responded after the suspicious device was discovered. Investigators determined the device was real and had been lit but failed to function as designed, court records and local reports said. Because of where the device was placed and the threat it posed to the public, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assumed primary jurisdiction of the probe, officials said.

The FBI identified two men linked to the device and executed a federal search warrant at a residence in Magna, west of downtown Salt Lake City. Authorities arrested 58-year-old Adeeb Nasir and 31-year-old Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, according to arrest documents and multiple local reports. Some accounts gave a slightly different spelling of the younger man’s middle name and differed on the timing of...