Cobb County police arrested a former Kennesaw State professor July 10 after he told officials he put an explosive in his vehicle.
Police made the arrest on charges of false statements and theft by taking when they arrived at Brent Christopher Allsup’s home at approximately 7:30 a.m. on July 10, according to WSB. They then evacuated the Acworth neighborhood and searched Allsup’s SUV where they found “what appeared to be an explosive device,” according to the AJC.
Also according to the AJC, the police were able to safely remove the device from Allsup’s vehicle. The police identified the device as a “PVC pipe bomb with flash powder, .45 calibration pistol ammunition and electric ignition system.”
Allsup is currently facing additional charges of possession and manufacture of a destructive device, reckless conduct and cruelty to children, according to the AJC.
Allsup served as a part-time accounting professor at KSU for seven years before he resigned after KSU police arrested him on the Kennesaw campus on three felony drug charges and an open-container misdemeanor on Oct. 5 last year.
KSU police received a call from a witness who said they saw Allsup stumbling around a parking lot on campus, and police later found him unconscious in the Carmichael Student Center. When police searched Allsup’s car, they found prescription pill bottles, a container with eight unknown pill tablets and a beer bottle.
Allsup told the police he had two or three beers, a muscle relaxant and a narcotic painkiller before teaching his 7 p.m. class and said his prescriptions are to treat his lower back pain and other medical conditions.
