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Oil Executives Wife Reportedly Targeted By Chocolates Box Bomb

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Neighbors in a northwest Houston neighborhood are scared after a bomb was sent to a woman at her home and it exploded.

Neighbors say the explosive was disguised as a box of chocolates. Eyewitness News first reported the incident Friday night.

Investigators say the woman received the package at her home off Seamist a couple weeks ago and opened it Friday night, which is when it exploded.

Police are still not releasing the woman’s name, but she is in her 60s. A family member told Eyewitness News she had surgery on Saturday, but is stable. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are understandably shaken, are praying for her recovery.

“Just heard a really, really loud boom,” neighbor Courtney Turpin said.

Turpin lives two doors down from where the pipe bomb exploded in her neighbor’s hands.

“It sounded like it was just outside of our walls,” she said.

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Berkeley Cops Seize Bomb Materials From Home

Monday, July 20th, 2009

A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing explosive materials at a home in the Berkeley hills, police said today.

Emoru Oboke Obbanya, 27 was arrested at 976 Grizzly Peak Blvd. links.sfgate.com/ZHRK by officers investigating a 911 hang-up call at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.

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Haz Mat Team Responds To Suspicious Package

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

A county hazardous materials team was sent Thursday to a commercial building in Lakewood after one person reported feeling ill. A suspicious package was found in the mailroom of the AARP building and the building was evacuated shortly after 8 a.m.

The suspicious package, a letter containing a white powdery substance, was the third this year sent to the AARP building on the 3200 block of E. Carson Street, said AARP spokeswoman Charee Gillins.