FBI Investigates Car Filled With Explosives in New Haven

Police have arrested a man in New Haven Connecticut after they discovered his vehicle was filled with explosives, guns, pipe bombs and propane tanks, according to news reports.

The suspect has not been identified.

Around 11:30 p.m., police said that a car was found with explosives at the intersection of Grand Ave and Clinton Ave.

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FBI New Haven spokesman William Reiner told FOXNews.com that the bureau is now helping local police in the probe, but declined to elaborate.

Cops pulled over a motorist driving a car full of pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank in New Haven about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to FOX 61.

A bomb squad was called in and a silver Mercedes was towed away. There have been no reports of injuries.

Authorities closed off a four-block area because of the danger posed by the explosives, but did not evacuate.

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Columbine-Style Attack Averted At San Mateo’s Hillsdale High School

UPDATE: Police in San Mateo, California, said Monday that “a potentially very drastic event” at a high school was averted when school personnel subdued a former student who walked into the school armed with pipe bombs, a chainsaw and a 2-foot-long sword.

“It had the potential to be a catastrophic incident,” said police Lt. Mike Brunicardi, describing the incident in which two pipe bombs exploded and at least 1,200 students and faculty were evacuated from the Northern California school.

No one was injured in the incident, police said.

Brunicardi said a 17-year-old former student wearing a nylon vest packed with 10 homemade pipe bombs entered Hillsdale High School in San Mateo about 8 a.m. Monday. He detonated two devices, with smoke setting off the school’s fire-alarm system, before two teachers confronted him.

“The suspect was quickly wrestled down by a teacher who, with the help of the principal and another teacher, were able to hold him down until police arrived minutes later,” Brunicardi said.

The suspect’s intentions were not clear, police said.

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Former student set off pipe bomb. Police flooded the campus of Hillsdale High School in San Mateo Monday morning. Students were seen leaving the area by the hundreds after authorities canceled classes for the day following an explosion on campus.

The students gathered at a large black top area behind Abbott Middle School about a block away from the school. That is where the school told parents to pick their children up from school.

Police were called to the school at 8:07 a.m. after reports that someone brought a gun on campus. While police were on their way, they heard the report of an explosion.

The assistant superintendent for the district Kurt Black said a former student set off some kind of explosive device inside the school. He said it didn’t do any damage and nobody was hurt. Black said the teachers knew the student and somehow were able to take hold of him until police arrived. He is now in police custody.

One student who was on campus described the sound of the explosion as “a thousand M-80s going off.”

Another student said her teacher ordered everyone to get under their desks after he noticed smoke in the hall. That girl said she saw a guitar case, a chainsaw, a pipe and some brown liquid in the hallway as she ran out of the school.

Someone else said he saw a kid running down the hall carrying pipe bombs in his arms with a counselor running after him after he heard what he described as an explosion.

KTVU is quoting a source that says police found more than one pipe bomb on campus.

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Everett Couple Injured In Pipe Bomb Blast

An Everett man and his wife were injured on the Fourth of July when someone hurled a pipe bomb at them, according to our news partners at KING-TV. The couple was walking along 124th Street Southwest to view fireworks when the pipe bomb exploded.

“One of the doctors who operated on my daughter said it was the equivalent of a hand grenade,” the injured woman’s mother told KING-TV. “It just blew her basically through the air and she hit the ground and tore up her arm and the shrapnel went into her right foot.”

The wife suffered injuries and her arms and legs and her husband also sustained leg injuries. There have been no arrests.

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Pipe-Bomb Thrown Inside Buffalo Church

A Buffalo church is on alert after a device, believed to be a pipe-bomb, was thrown inside it over-night. No one was hurt, but the pastor of Redeemer Fire Fellowship Church on Lewis Street, says it could have been deadly.

Pastor David Keaton says he got a call from someone last night that his church was on fire,. “So, when I arrived here, it wasn’t necessarily on fire. Someone had broken the side door and thrown a pipe-bomb in,” said Keaton.

Keaton says flame-resistant carpet prevented the fuse from igniting the bomb and catching the church on fire.

Buffalo Police investigators told Keaton if the device would have ignited inside, the damage could have been substantial, “It would have certainly blown all of this glass out, it would have damaged all of this front area…certainly there would have been fire.”

The Catholic Diocese sold the building to Keaton, a Baptist minister, about a month ago. He doesn’t know anyone who would want to hurt him or the church, “Don’t want to say a hate crime, don’t want to say terrorist, don’t want to make it a race issue, or religious issue.”

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Foreclosed Home Booby Trapped With Pipe Bombs

A bank representative checking on a Riverside foreclosed home got a nasty surprise Tuesday afternoon when he spotted what appeared to be pipe bombs laying all over the property.

Eight homes were evacuated in a Riverside neighborhood Tuesday night after pipe bombs were found on the property. No one was hurt.

Arriving cops agreed with the bank rep and called in the bomb squad.  Eight homes surrounding the vacant house at 1420 Orange Street were ordered evacuated and a small manned armored tractor was sent in to clear the yard of what appeared to be pipe bombs.

Bomb squad experts said it would take hours to make sure the property surrounding the home is clear.  Police said after the yard is given an “all clear” they would tackle the issue of whether the home is booby trapped.   Sgt. Jaybee Brennan of the Riverside Police Department said police think there are more pipe bombs inside the house.

It may be until Wednesday when police will be able to say if the pipe bombs were real or not.

At 10:06 p.m. bomb experts blew up the first of several pipe bombs found in the yard.   People in the surrounding neighborhoods heard the explosion.

There have been no reported injuries.

Residents who were asked to leave the neighborhood during the investigation were allowed to return home Wednesday morning.

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Bomb Scare At Motor City Casino – Suspicious Devices Found

UPDATE: A 70-year-old Eastpointe man has been arrested after police say he left seven suspicious packages in the Motor City Casino garage Sunday.

After more than six and a half hours, Detroit police and Homeland Security officials allowed customers to retrieve their cars from the Motor City Casino parking garage.

The bomb squad detonated three suspicious devices out of at least six Sunday evening.

The items were discovered in the parking garage about 4:30 p.m. by a casino security guard.

The finding prompted police to sweep Greektown and MGM Grand Casinos with K-9s as a precaution; however, nothing was found.

None of the packages at Motor City turned out to be explosives; however, authorities were not revealing the contents of the parcels.

For about an hour and a half after the discovery officers weren’t letting people out of the building.

Later, they allowed customers to leave but they could not get their cars from the garage because of the ongoing investigation.

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Suicide Bomber Type Vest Found In Mt. Washington – Pittsburgh

Workers cleaning out a house in Mt. Washington called police when they found a device with what looked like pipe bombs with wires and nails attached.

“It looked exactly like somebody would wear in a suicide bomber-type of scene or suicide bomber- type of incident,” said Sheldon Williams, of the Pittsburgh police bomb squad.

The device was found outside 559 Southern Avenue late Thursday morning while workers from Pittsburgh Iron and Scrap Metal were picking up scrap metal. While loading materials into their truck, they noticed a device and called authorities.

The bomb squad arrived and, using the squad’s robot, police were able to get a closer look at the device.

“It had a vest,” he said. “The pipe bombs were in a series, meaning they were all linked together.”

“There was a wire coming out of it with a plunger on the end of it,” Williams said.

The bomb squad detonated one of the pipe bombs at the scene. The other three pipe bombs in the vest could not be opened and were taken to a private destination for further testing and detonation.

“It could totally be a hoax device,” said Williams. “But we would not make that determination upon arrival.”

Part of the investigation will include locating the previous tenants that neighbors said kept to themselves.

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Backpack With 7 Pipe Bombs Leads To Evacuations

Santee California - A man who found seven pipe bombs in a backpack turned them in to the Sheriff’s Department substation Monday afternoon, prompting authorities to evacuate nearby businesses as they neutralized the explosive devices.

The man entered the station on Cuyamaca Street, near Buena Vista Avenue, around 2:15 p.m. and left the backpack in the lobby, Lt. Mike Munsey said. The man said he found the bag with the bombs the night before and one of them was leaking.

The sheriff’s bomb-arson unit inspected the backpack and neutralized each bomb individually, Munsey said.

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Possible Pipe Bomb in Sparks Detonated, Road Closed

Minutes before the noon hour Tuesday, local law enforcement detonated a device that could have been a bomb.

Discovered on Stanford Way and Greg St. in Sparks, a device that looked like “a pipe with two caps” on the ends was exploded by a member of the Consolidated Bomb Squad, according to News 4 crews on the scene.

Law enforcement told News 4 they closed the surrounding roadways because of the discovery of the device.

Officials utilized a specialized robot to help deal with the object.

A civilian notified authorities of the presence of the device.

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2 Detained In Possible Pipe Bomb Explosion In San Francisco

Police questioned two men in their 20s in connection with an apparent pipe bomb explosion in San Francisco’s Bayview District early Friday morning, a police sergeant said.

Officers responded to reports of either an explosion or shots fired at about 5:20 a.m. in the 1100 block of La Salle Avenue and found remnants of what appeared to be a pipe bomb, Sgt. Neville Gittens said. Read more

Pipe Bomb Materials Discovered During Vehicle Search – Indianapolis

Metro police arrested two men for allegedly making and transporting homemade explosive devices.

A Metro police bomb technician emptied the items from the suspects’ car at a gas station at Southport Road and Emerson Avenue on the south side. Read more