Tennis ball rigged with fuse leads bomb squad to man’s truck, Washington cops say
A driver found a tennis ball rigged with a fuse in his truck, prompting a bomb squad response in Washington, troopers said.
The man was driving to get an estimate for a shattered window on June 29, Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson said in a tweet. At about 6:30 p.m., he saw a “tennis ball with a fuse” in his vehicle while on the ramp from Interstate 405 to 112th Avenue in Bellevue, Johnson said.
He called 911 and a bomb squad went to his truck, Johnson said.
They determined the makeshift tennis ball was an improvised explosive device — a homemade bomb.
The explosive “would have caused great harm or death of it were to go off,” Johnson said.
But the bomb squad “rendered it safe,” and no one was injured, he said.
Troopers did not release any other information related to how the explosive device ended up in the man’s truck.
Bellevue is about 10 miles east of Seattle.
This story was originally published June 30, 2023 at 6:06 PM with the headline "Tennis ball rigged with fuse leads bomb squad to man’s truck, Washington cops say."
