BRIEFCASE BOUGHT AT FLEA MARKET FILLED WITH BOMBS
(07-11-2004) - A sheriff's sergeant said that an employee at a Santee swap meet got more than he bargained for Sunday when he opened a briefcase and discovered what appeared to be homemade bombs.
Authorities said that the area was evacuated as a precaution, but the devices turned out to be inert, or unarmed, Naval training aids.
According to sheriff's Bomb/Arson Unit Sgt. Conrad Grayson, the employee opened the briefcase shortly before 1 p.m. at a flea market in the 10000 block of North Woodside Avenue.
Grayson said that when the man opened the briefcase and saw what it contained, he laid the case down and called authorities.
Sheriff's deputies closed the drive-in entrance to the meet and evacuated an area near the trash bins where the employee had opened the briefcase.
Grayson said they determined that the devices were harmless, but because they were of sophisticated construction, no further information about them would be released.
Deputies were investigating where the fake bombs came from and if they had been stolen from a military base, Grayson said.
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Troopers search for underwater bombs
Saturday, July 10, 2004
BY RON MARSICO
Star-Ledger Staff
Trolling the murky channel off Bayonne yesterday, a New Jersey State Police patrol boat pulled a yellow torpedo-shaped sonar unit for the agency's latest mission: Searching for underwater explosives.
Members of the State Police diving team were poised to jump into the uninviting Port Jersey Channel's waters, but were spared when the sonar's chart signaled nothing more than the expected bulkheads and pilings along the city's former military ocean terminal.
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OH MY!!!! Davey!! This is less than a half mile from where I live!
I knew nothing, nothing at all about this.
Gonna see if I can find any info locally now.
geez louise!