Guests Moved To Safe Location After Pipe Bombs Found

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DENVER (CBS4)- Police in Denver are providing more details about what happened after pipe bombs were discovered in a hotel room in downtown Denver.

Adam Hayat was arrested Thursday at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport one day after the explosive devices were found in his room at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver on Wednesday night.

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A Sheraton hotel spokeswoman told CBS4 that when staff located what they determined to be a "potential security risk" they alerted police and officers took over the investigation at that time.

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Guests nearby were moved to a safer location.

A source said no explosives were found at the Los Angeles hotel where Hayat was taken into custody on Thursday.

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Investigators are trying to figure out why Hayat, 36, had the bombs. He faces charges of having unregistered explosive devices.

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