Two men are reportedly in custody and two local bomb squads have been called to an apartment in Miami Twp. after an investigation by the authorities at the Dayton Veterans Administration Hospital learned of a possible plot to shoot people at the facility. A rocket launch tube was found in a dumpster at the address according to Miami Twp. Deputy Police Chief John DiPietro.
Two men were being questioned after federal agents and local officers learned the men planned “to show up at the VA Center and basically shoot a bunch of people up,” police said Monday.
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From WLWT
Police in a Dayton suburb said they’ve found guns and what appeared to be a rocket launcher while investigating a threat against a local facility.
WDTN-TV said the launcher was found in a Dumpster outside a Miami Township apartment building on Springboro Pike on Monday.
An image of the launcher looks much like a LAW, a light single-use anti-tank weapon first issued to U.S. forces in the Vietnam War era, but officials have not specified what the device is.
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From WHIO Radio
A search of a Miami Bluffs apartment turns up guns, ammunition, and a rocket launcher.
Federal agents worked in conjunction with local police in response a threat that was made to the Dayton VA Medical Center either late last night or early Monday morning by two people.
After obtaining permission to search the apartment from one of the suspects, police discovered the weapons and ammo. A neighbor then alerted the officers to a rocket launcher that was in a nearby dumpster.
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