ATF Investigates Prospect Heights Pipe Bomb
Pipe Bomb Discovered Outside Restaurant
POSTED: 6:42 pm CST March 8, 2004
UPDATED: 6:48 pm CST March 8, 2004
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Police held a news conference late Monday afternoon to discuss the case of a pipe bomb found outside a Prospect Heights restaurant.
The owner of Paradise Banquets called in a report after finding an object he thought was suspicious, reported NBC5's Charlie Wojciechowski.
As a precaution, a busy stretch of Rand Road was shut down and one business was evacuated.
Police said the bomb, which was 6 inches long with a 2-inch circumference, could have been deadly had it been detonated. The fuse of the bomb appeared to have been lit but fizzled out. There was no one inside the restaurant at the time the bomb was discovered.
Police searched the area with dogs but found no other suspicious devices. They said devices like that pipe bomb are rarely left behind by accident.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is assisting Prospect Heights police in the investigation.
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