A man suspected of planting a bomb at a mall in Colorado on the 12th anniversary of the attack at Columbine High School is scheduled to appear in federal court in Denver on Wednesday.
Earl Albert Moore was arrested Tuesday at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said.
The arrest ended a search that started last week after a pipe bomb was discovered on April 20 in a back hallway at a mall in Littleton.
It was just a few miles from the high school where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed more than a dozen people before committing suicide.
The discovery of the bomb sent a ripple of fear through the community, which was marking the 12th anniversary of the Columbine killings.
Dozens of area schools were locked down, but authorities ruled out any connection between the bomb and the Columbine anniversary.
It was not immediately known what federal charges Moore will face.
The suspect allegedly planted the bomb just a week after he was released from the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina, authorities said.
Moore was serving time for bank robbery, a federal law enforcement source told CNN.
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