Police had been investigating a marijuana growing operation when they found a bomb and bomb making materials.
The bomb was safely defused and disassembled by a Pennsylvania State Police Bomb Squad.
Miftakhov is enrolled as a student at Penn State University, in Altoona.
He was charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, possessing instruments of crime, possessing incendiary devices, possessing prohibited offensive weapons, recklessly endangering another person, risking a catastrophe, and multiple drug offenses.
It is unclear what his motive or intended target was.
A federal investigation is now underway, alongside the local and state ones.
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