David Kendrick Brown, 49, of Bloomfield, and his brother, Leslie Brown, 44, of Ignacio, Colo., are expected to plead guilty on Thursday to still-unspecified charges in connection with last December's theft of 400 pounds of explosives from a storage yard in Albuquerque.

"It looks as though they are set to plead guilty on (April) 13th," Norman Cairns, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albuquerque, told the Farmington Daily Times.

The Browns were scheduled to go to trial on May 8.

Some 150 pounds of C-4 explosive, 250 pounds of sheet explosives, 20,000 feet of detonator cord and 2,500 blasting caps were reported missing from the Albuquerque storage yard on Dec. 18.

The materials were later recovered in a warehouse outside Bloomfield and in Ignacio, Colo., after federal ATF and FBI agents as well as local law enforcement launched an investigation, the Daily Times reported today on its Web site.

An unidentified informant told federal investigators where to find the missing explosives and reported that Leslie Brown had bragged about stealing the material with his brother, the Daily Times said.

Also charged in connection with the alleged thefts were Eric Armstrong, Joseph Mulnix and Robert Shaw, each of whom was charged with conspiracy of to steal and possess explosive materials, theft of explosives and possession of stolen explosives, the Daily Times reported.

Authorities said the suspects allegedly intended to sell the explosives for quick cash, according to the Daily Times.

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