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StumbleBomb squad defuses pipe bomb found under car
Published Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 | 4:57 p.m.
Updated Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 | 6:33 p.m.
A pipe bomb found under a car on Becky Lane in Boulder City was safely defused Saturday by Las Vegas Fire & Rescue’s bomb squad.
Boulder City police were called to the home on Becky about 1:30 p.m. by a resident who said he found a pipe bomb under his daughter’s car, Deputy Chief John Chase said.
Police found the homemade device constructed of PVC pipe with the fuse intact, according to incident reports. Some nearby homes were evacuated while residents outside a 200-foot perimeter were asked to stay in their homes, police and neighbors said. Becky Lane on either side of the house was closed, neighbors said.
The Las Vegas bomb squad and Metro Police Armor Unit were called, and the bomb was contained and isolated using a remote-controlled robot, Chase said. The bomb was rendered safe, Chase said, and residents were allowed to return to their homes after about two hours.
A juvenile was arrested and taken to Clark County Juvenile Hall, Chase said.
Neighbor Micky Phelps said police asked her to stay in her house when she went to her front yard to see what the commotion was about.
Some time later, she said, she saw from her window a large red truck pull up, then heard a loud pop.
“It was kind of scary to us afterward,” she said. “We said, ‘Yeah, we should have been more worried.’”
Jean Reid Norman can be reached at 948-2073 or jean.norman@lasvegassun.com.
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Not North Las Vegas and not hispanic. Goes to show the racists that bad things happen all over the valley and by all kinds of people.
It was probably a liberal dumbacrat fed up with his parties inability to get anything done.
duck buttered? sounds like someone has experiance in those things
We have no liberals in Boulder City.
I'm more curious as to why anyone would think to look under a car for a bomb in the first place. Does everybody do this every time they get ready to drive somewhere? What prompted someone to look in the first place?
Teaser: That is a good question why would they be looking unless they knew about the threat, or the kid that planted it left wires and duck tape hanging in sight. I would have to go with the poor workmanship theory with the half ass way these kids do things these days.
And how did we go from a pipe bomb to a liberal race riot in Boulder City?
The neighborhood kids use to fill their empty BB-gun CO2 cartridges with flash-powder after M-80s were outlawed to recapture the BANG in life.
: )
Bomb squads, robots, evacuations.
Terrorist juvenile apprehended.
LOL
Boulder City is crawling with liberals.
The "Liberal connection" is logical here. Maybe Obama did it. Or Acorn. Or the ghost of Ted Kennedy.
You pseudo-patriots are hilarious. I mean seriously, obsessed much?
Sue Lowden and Heidi Harris says this never happened. No bombs in Nevada, the bomb squad doesn't exist, and its reports are rumors. And Sue would know, she used to be a "Journalist."