The Indiana National Guardsman stopped on a highway outside Columbus with a small arsenal in his van repeatedly told troopers he had no weapons, video footage from a State Highway Patrol cruiser released yesterday shows.

The Indiana National Guardsman stopped on a highway outside Columbus with a small arsenal in his van repeatedly told troopers he had no weapons, video footage from a State Highway Patrol cruiser released yesterday shows.

The guardsman, Andrew Scott Boguslawski, can be heard in the video telling the trooper who stopped him that the gun the trooper saw between Boguslawski�s legs was plastic and not a real weapon. When more troopers arrived to search Boguslawski�s van, they asked him if there were any explosives or dynamite inside � �anything that�s going to blow up on us?� one trooper asks.

Boguslawski answers, �No.�

Troopers said they found 83 improvised explosives inside the van after Boguslawski was stopped just before midnight on Jan. 1, as well as several guns, including an AR-15 rifle and a loaded 9 mm pistol.

Boguslawski, 43, told the trooper he was traveling from Pennsylvania to Indiana, and that he was driving fast to avoid bad weather. The trooper, William Davis of the patrol�s West Jefferson post, clocked Boguslawski traveling 85 mph in a 70-mph zone on I-70 in Madison County, west of Columbus.

In the video, Davis can be heard describing the plastic gun to another trooper, and Boguslawski says, �I didn�t even realize it was considered a weapon.�

The patrol released the 48-minute video yesterday. It shows the trooper stopping Boguslawski, then arresting him, and shows more officers searching Boguslawski�s van and removing bags and guns from it. The video released by the patrol is a fragment of the total footage captured on the trooper�s dashboard camera that night.

Bradley Shaw, a spokesman for the patrol, said the patrol released a shortened version rather than the entire video because it had not had time to go through the video and take out audio that would not be a public record.

Boguslawski was most recently assigned as an intelligence analyst to a reconnaissance unit in the National Guard. He held top-secret government clearance because of that work. Lt. Col. Cathy Van Bree, a spokeswoman for the Indiana National Guard, said that clearance was suspended after Boguslawski�s arrest.

Boguslawski was transferred to the Indiana National Guard�s Medical Discharge Unit in November. Van Bree said she could not disclose the reasons for that transfer.

Boguslawski also worked at one time as a groundskeeper at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind. Van Bree said last week that he stopped working there in 2010.

Boguslawski has been charged with one count of manufacturing explosives, a second-degree felony, and one count of collecting chemicals for manufacturing explosives, a fourth-degree felony. Prosecutors say they plan to take the case to a grand jury, possibly in early February, unless a federal agency takes over the case.

Boguslawski has been at Tri-County Jail in Mechanicsburg under $1 million bail.

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