Officers investigated the residence and found a loaded bolt-action rifle, handgun, ammunition and knives in the suspect’s bedroom, according to police. Morley’s mother told police that her son had the pressure cooker and the other materials before the Boston Marathon attacks, according to the affidavit. Police said they discovered all of the items last month after Morley told his mother and her boyfriend that he planned to burn down their house. Morley was placed in custody on June 9 after a nearly four-hour standoff that closed Topsfield’s picturesque town center. Morley was taken to Bridgewater State Hospital on Sunday night and was scheduled for arraignment on Monday at Ipswich District Court in Newburyport as long as his health permits.
– A man who was arrested June 9 in the Boston area had the necessary materials for building a pressure-cooker bomb like the kind used in the marathon attacks, according to recently unsealed police documents. And according to Daniel Morley's mother, he'd had the materials prior to the April marathon bombings. Now the FBI is investigating him and any possible links between the two cases, Reuters reports. Wicked Local reports that the 27-year-old was taken into custody after police responded to a domestic disturbance; Reuters reports he allegedly assaulted his mother and her boyfriend and threatened to blow up a plane. After Morley's arrest, police found weapons including an assault rifle and a handgun, a pressure cooker and other bomb materials, several hundred rounds of ammo, a black duffel bag, and some even weirder items (a bird's head in a shoebox, a burned and stabbed stuffed animal, a drawing of what appears to be the Boston skyline and a plane) in his home. Morley's mother also said her son told her that his best friend boasted of knowing Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And according to the affidavit, that friend "was attempting to have him do something really bad, but Daniel did not want to do," or so Morley told his mother. Morley is currently at a state hospital undergoing psychiatric evaluation.