Federal authorities tied white supremacist Kevin Harpham to the bomb planted at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade in Washington state after noticing unusually high sales of quarter-ounce fishing weights at a Walmart in Colville, Washington.The retail giant provided information about sales of fishing weights — like those used in the backpack bomb Harpham planted along the parade route in January — from 72 of their stores in the months leading up to the attempted bombing. The Walmart location in Colville sold an unusually high number of the fishing weights during a week in November, according to a newly released plea agreement between Harpham and federal prosecutors.
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