AUGUSTA - Investigators seized three guns, low-explosive training grenades and a stolen silencer from the home of a former national guardsmen who has been charged with impersonating a U.S. Army soldier at Fort Gordon, court documents said Friday.

Authorities said Anthony Saxon, 34, had worn combat fatigues and was carrying a bag with other explosives and military gear when he was stopped by military police Tuesday and arrested at the post in Augusta.

Documents filed Friday in U.S. District Court say Saxon possessed the firearms and explosives illegally because he is a convicted felon. But court records showed no weapons-related charges had been filed Friday afternoon.

Prosecutors say a bag found inside Saxon's vehicle Tuesday contained stun grenades, a land mine and an infrared laser sight. Saxon got the laser sight from a soldier on the post by posing as an Army master sergeant, according to court filings.

Authorities and the military have declined to say what Saxon was doing at Fort Gordon and why he wanted the military items.

A search of Saxon's home in nearby Keysville following his arrest turned up two military-style rifles, a handgun, a silencer and five devices containing low-explosive powder used to simulate grenades and bombs in military training, according to the court documents.

In an affidavit, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Ronald Rhodes said Saxon consented to the search after telling investigators he had a gun in his bedroom. Other weapons were found in woods behind the house.

During the search, Rhodes said, Saxon's wife told investigators "she had received a text message from her husband, directing her to remove the firearms from the residence."

The affidavit says authorities determined Saxon sent the text message after he was stopped by military police but before his arrest.

The silencer was traced to an Augusta gun shop. The owner told investigators it had been stolen from his store in January.

Rhodes' affidavit says Saxon was convicted of grand theft, a felony, in Seminole County, Fla., in May 1996. The felony conviction would make it illegal for him to own firearms or explosives.

Saxon's attorney, Danny Durham, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Friday from the media. He declined to comment after Saxon's first court appearance Wednesday.

Saxon is due back in court Monday afternoon for a detention hearing. Prosecutors said they will reveal more details of the case then.

The Florida National Guard has confirmed that Saxon enlisted as an Army reservist in 1993 and received an honorable discharge in 1994. Authorities say he is not currently in the military.

Saxon's next-door neighbor, Andrea Watson, said on Wednesday that she saw Saxon wearing military fatigues so often that she assumed he was in the Army.