Hill employee convicted of bomb-making charges Published Sept. 30, 2008 SAN ANTONIO -- A Hill Air Force Base, Utah, employee was convicted of bomb charges in a federal court Sept. 25 in Utah. Raymond Bradley Parr, a marketing director with the 75th Air Base Wing's Services Division, was arrested in September 2007 on suspicion of manufacturing and possessing explosive devices, some of which were classified as illegal pipe bombs. The case began when two men broke into a storage shed owned by Mr. Parr and stole 40 explosive devices, which they later abandoned behind a car wash in Layton, Utah. Mr. Parr, 48, denied the charges, saying the devices were pyrotechnic props for use in events at Hill AFB. However, he did admit to creating the devices and placing them in the storage unit without registering them. Detectives on the scene testified that Mr. Parr confessed 17 of the devices were intended as weapons when he built them during an "experimental phase" of his life a few years earlier. Mr. Parr now faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 8