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MARION COUNTY -- An apparent planned attack on the Eustis Police Department was thwarted Monday after Marion County investigators found 22 firearms, several containers of black powder, bulletproof vests and drugs inside a shed. The Marion County Sheriff's Office's Crime Suppression Unit received information Friday concerning illegal firearms and explosives stored at a home. Investigators said they received information that a rocket propelled grenade launcher and missiles were being stored in a safe that was located inside a shed on the property. "The occupants of the shed intended to use the rocket launcher on the Eustis Police Department on May...

Marion County authorities said today that at least two men were arrested and more than 20 weapons confiscated after law enforcement received word of a plot to attack the Eustis Police Department with a rocket launcher. An informant reported that individuals planned to hit the police department with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher today, according to Marion County sheriff's Capt. James Pogue. The individuals were targeting the Eustis department because of recent "run-ins" with officers in the Lake County city, Pogue said. The informant also claimed that the rocket launcher and "missiles" were being kept in a safe at a Marion...

An engineering firm involved in the design of the 17th Street Canal levee and floodwalls said Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers overruled its recommendation to drive sheet piling to a depth of 35 feet below sea level along a stretch of the floodwall that failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing massive flooding in Lakeview and other parts of the city. William B. Conway, chairman of the Metairie engineering firm Modjeski and Masters, in a letter to The Times-Picayune, said the corps plan eventually led to pilings that were driven just 10 feet below sea level. Modjeski and Masters was...