{"id":1476275,"date":"2026-01-29T22:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476275"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:37:48","slug":"pipe-bomb-found-one-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476275","title":{"rendered":"Pipe bomb, drugs, firearms found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_225007-199x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1476276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_225007-199x200.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_225007.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>JACKSONVILLE \u2014 One man has been arrested after a drug-related search warrant of a home led to deputies discovering narcotics, firearms and a pipe bomb. <\/p>\n<p>According to our news partner KETK and the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies obtained a probable cause for the search warrant of a home in the 200 block of County Road 1814 in Jacksonville, after attempting to serve arrest warrants for 42-year-old Charles Phifer and smelling marijuana coming from the residence. Deputies arrived at the home on Wednesday and executed a narcotics search at the residence where they found methamphetamine, firearms, marijuana and a suspected pipe bomb.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) responded to the scene and safely removed the pipe bomb.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Phifer was not found at the residence during the search, but officers did make contact with Joshua Watson, who was found to have outstanding warrant for family violence-related assault charges. Watson was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that Phifer is currently wanted by the sheriff\u2019s office for two failure to appear charges and is expected to face additional charges related to the search findings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_224937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1476277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_224937.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_224937-225x140.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE \u2014 One man has been arrested after a drug-related search warrant of a home led to deputies discovering narcotics, firearms and a pipe bomb. According to our news partner KETK and the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies obtained a probable cause for the search warrant of a home in the 200 block of County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1476275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pipe bomb, drugs, firearms found<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1476480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_225007-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 03:25:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-29_225007-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476851,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476275\/revisions\/1476851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}