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Investigators: Device That Prompted Bomb Scare Fake
Maintenance Worker Found Device, Police Say
POSTED: 12:36 pm EDT July 28, 2010
UPDATED: 2:50 pm EDT July 28, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Investigators said Wednesday that a device that appeared to be a pipe bomb that had been left in an apartment closet was fake.Several people were evacuated from Bradford Place Collegiate Residences after a maintenance worker discovered the device at about 10:30 a.m.Bloomington Police Lt. David Drake said a maintenance worker went into an apartment closet after a tenant had moved out and found two pipes tied together with a wire coming out of it.Police, firefighters and a bomb squad from Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center were called to the scene.A robot was sent in to retrieve the device, which investigators determined was not a bomb. Investigators believe it had been left there intentionally.
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