Bomb scare prompts evacuation at Carlsbad trailer park
(Carlsbad-AP) -- Whatever it was, state police bomb experts have defused it.
About 20 Carlsbad residents are back home after a bomb scare at a trailer park Friday.
That’s the report from State Police Lieutenant Pat Werick, who says investigators still do not know whether the material found inside a cooler was explosive.
However, Werick says explosive or not, it appeared to have been some sort of device. And he says the bomb squad defused it Saturday.
The Eddy County Sheriff’s Department got the call Friday about the device. The area was evacuated. The state bomb squad moved in Saturday.
Authorities say a trailer park resident was moving things out of a storage shed.
When a helper removed a small Igloo-brand cooler from the shed, the owner warned him it contained explosives. The man called authorities.
State police say the cooler’s owner later changed his story and said the Igloo contained clothes. And the investigation continues.