My friends are idiots

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   So, about 6 months ago, a good friend of mine whos an active duty veteran currently with the national guard came over. Since hes the only member of the local guard whos actually been to iraq, they had him working on training things. He tells me his commanding officer told him to whip up a couple fake IEDs to be used in training excercises, showing the new guys what to keep an eye out for.

So since Im a total junk packrat, I offered him to take whatever he needed that I had laying around the garage. He rigs up an empty small helium tank with an old dead cell phone, and a pop can filled with dirt and an antenna sticking out of it. He tosses them in his car and leaves, and I never thought anything of it again.

Until this happened: http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/Police_destroy_suspicious_devices

Yes, that is my friends old apartment. Turns out the idiot never took the fake IEDs to the guard armory, he just left them laying around his apartment. And then when he moved out, he forgot about them and left them behind...

Last I saw him was a week or so ago, when he got email telling him he was being deployed again and to start with the whole pre-deployment process. I have no idea when he was scheduled to leave, or if he is over there already, because his cell phone is disconnected, and none of our mutual friends have seen him.

Now Im a bit paranoid because I provided the random junk and crap that he used to make these things. So I wonder, would the cops be able to trace where the parts came from, or would they even care? If they did, would I be in any sort of trouble for this? As far as I knew, I was just helping a friend with an assignment from his commanding officer, but who the hell knows nowdays...