• NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Federal officials have charged a New Jersey man with illegally transporting explosive materials, nearly a year after a separate search of his dorm room in South Dakota turned up similar substances.
• The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said Anthony Nicholas Gallo of North Caldwell, N.J., was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with transporting explosive materials without a license or permit.
• A federal complaint filed against the 20-year-old charges him with traveling to Pennsylvania on Jan. 8 with a PVC pipe containing potassium chlorate and magnesium.
• During Gallo's first appearance in a Newark federal courtroom Wednesday, attorney Steven Martino said Gallo did not pose a danger to anyone and questioned why, if he had posed a serious threat, federal authorities waited 10 months to arrest him.
• "Anthony is a good kid, and we'll show what they (the government) are portraying him as is not what he is," Martino said.
• Joyce Malliet, an assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, argued for keeping Gallo in custody, saying he was seemingly obsessed with building and detonating explosives and had bragged in graphic detail on Facebook about his alleged exploits.
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Falk said he didn't have enough information on the case to make a decision, and ordered Gallo to remain in federal custody until a custody hearing could be held Friday.
• Gallo, handcuffed and smiling at his parents in court, didn't speak other than to acknowledge to the judge that he understood his rights.
• Currently a student at Bergen County Community College, Gallo had been enrolled at the University of South Dakota from the fall of 2011 until his withdrawal on Jan. 17, according to SDU Spokesman Phillip Carter.
• The charging document filed Wednesday against Gallo says he was admitted to

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