TORONTO — Toronto police recovered a large amount of potential bomb-making fertilizer Wednesday night and said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the purchase at a store not far from where the G20 summit will be held.
Police said the purchaser contacted the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team shortly after it released a composite sketch of the man to the public.
“The ammonium nitrate has been recovered from two addresses in Toronto,” police said in a new release.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the purchase and they did not expect to lay charges.
Authorities had earlier called the purchase suspicious.
“The individual who made the purchase falsely misrepresented himself as making the purchase on behalf of a local grower,” Insp. Gord Sneddon said earlier Wednesday at a news conference.
The man, believed to be in his late 50s or early 60s, bought the ammonium nitrate in the mid-afternoon of May 26 at a farm-supply store in Lincoln, Ont., about 100 kilometres from Toronto.
Store workers reported the purchase to regional police on May 31.
Earlier reports said the man drove off with 60 25-kilogram bags — a total of 1,500 kilograms.