When Cherokee County agents searched the Canton home of Joseph Poss on Wednesday, they found no illegal drugs. But the agents didn’t come away empty handed.

They seized 46 weapons, at least eight believed to be fully-automatic assault rifles and many of which were “clearly altered illegally,” Cherokee sheriff’s Lt. Jay Baker said Thursday.

The agents from the Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad also found three “military pyrotechnic devices,” Baker said. A GBI bomb squad was called in to remove the explosive devices from the home on William Bobo Drive.

Agents arrested Poss, 58, and charged him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of fully automatic weapons and possession of weapons altered to an illegal length. He was booked into the Cherokee Adult Detention Center, and was released Thursday morning on $33,600 bond.

“Agents had gone to the Poss home in response to an anonymous tip,” Baker said. “In searching for drugs, agents uncovered the cache of weapons.”