SALT LAKE CITY — State felony charges against two men who were arrested while police investigated an explosive device that was located under a Utah news organization’s SUV in September have been dismissed.

Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, were arrested on Sept. 13 as part of an investigation into a suspicious device that was located by the Salt Lake police and Unified fire bomb squads under a news media vehicle the day prior.

The two men were charged on Sept. 22 in 3rd District Court with two counts of manufacturing, using or possessing a hoax weapon of mass destruction, a second-degree felony, after investigators found dynamite, guns and marijuana in their Magna home, according to charging documents. A bomb technician said both sticks of dynamite were deemed “inert.”

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