Man Brings Pipe-Bomb Find To Sheriff

MILAN, Ohio—Deputies say they scrambled to clear people out of an Ohio sheriff’s office when a man brought in a pipe bomb he said he’d found in a wildlife area.

Sheriff’s Capt. Ted Patrick in northern Ohio’s Huron County says the man explained he didn’t have a cell phone to call authorities about his discovery Wednesday morning, so he thought he’d better bring it in.

Patrick says the white, plastic pipe about 14 inches long and three inches around put the sheriff’s department on edge. Part of it appeared burnt, as if someone had tried to set off the bomb and then left it.

A deputy carried it outside the sheriff’s office, and it was detonated later by a regional bomb squad.

Patrick says the lesson is that no one should ever try moving what appears to be a bomb.

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