CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The subject of a book titled "The Radioactive Boy Scout" waived his preliminary larceny hearing Monday after he was charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors from Green Valley Apartments in Clinton Township.

The larceny case against him will automatically go to circuit court and that hearing is set for September 27.

Investigators said David Hahn, 31, was arrested in connection with stealing a smoke detector from his apartment complex. Others were found in his apartment.

Hahn had tried to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager.

A Harper's Magazine article reported he was trying to produce energy to help earn his Eagle Scout badge.

He had learned that a small amount of a radioactive isotope could be found in smoke detectors.

The Harper article said Hahn received a scouting merit badge for atomic energy in 1991.