Pipe Bomb Scare Results In Arrest On I-75 - Michigan
February 26, 2008
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After a traffic-choked freeway closure imposed at the height of Monday’s afternoon rush, the busy lanes of I-75 at I-696 in Royal Oak were reopened at 5:10 p.m. following a police chase and capture of a man thought to have thrown a pipe bomb from his car.
“We’ve got him in custody,” Royal Oak Police Chief Ted Quisenberry said at 5:15 p.m. “We recovered money, and we recovered the stuff that he threw out of the car that looked like it was explosive,” Quisenberry said.
A bomb squad from the Michigan State Police exploded the suspected pipe bomb and “now they’re examining the contents to see if it was actually explosive or just looked that way,” the chief said.
Royal Oak police earlier had said that a possible explosive had been tossed from a car driven south on I-75 by a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred around 3 p.m. at a payday-loan outlet on East 11 Mile near the Royal Oak Farmers Market. The suspect, a man who has not been identified by police, reportedly stole a car on the way out of the check-cashing branch.
Police chased the suspect south on I-75 to Davison and M-10 in Detroit, where the man’s car became disabled by a tire problem. The suspect was then arrested and taken to Sinai Grace Hospital for observation, a Royal Oak police dispatcher said.
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