Posted on 12/02/2008 9:20:08 PM PST by diverteach
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office and Hurlburt Office of Special Investigation discovered an explosive device in the back of a truck that had base access after receiving an anonymous tip Tuesday morning.
At about 6 a.m., deputies received an untraceable call and alerted Hurlburt Security personnel of the potential danger. The male voice had warned that a man working at Hurlburt Field had explosives on his truck.
Hurlburt Field security levels were raised at 10 a.m. when morning searches for the truck came up empty.
The caller's partial description eventually led investigators to a man with access to the base through his employers who had a construction contract.
By 10:40 a.m., deputies spotted the truck in the Consul Apartments parking lot on Monahan Drive.
The owner of the truck denied any knowledge of an item investigators found in the back of his vehicle.
A military working dog searched the truck but did not detect the explosives.
As a precaution, deputies evacuated the buildings, established a 1,000-foot-perimeter with road blocks on Monahan Drive and told residents across the street to stay inside while officers handled a "delicate matter."
The evacuation remained in effect until the bomb was diffused.
The incident is under investigation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
For those that don't know what Hurlburt is it's the headquarters Air Force Special Ops command.
Kansas City Slip
Is that the same thing as a Kansas city shuffle?
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking!
Thanks.
How does one “diffus” an explosive? Good grief, what a useless article.
So did they just break it up and spread it around, or did they blow it up so that it diffused into the air?
Sheesh
Once it goes BANG, it’s diffused.
Whoever edited this article should be fired.
Hell, the guy who ran the printing press should be fired.
L
> deputies received an untraceable call and alerted Hurlburt
> Security personnel of the potential danger. The male voice
> had warned that a man working at Hurlburt Field had
> explosives on his truck.
*Putting conspiracy theory hat on*
How did the caller know this? Very convenient of him to have an untraceable phone. If I were the police, I’d want to talk to anyone who had any personal grudges against the driver.
ping
"The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office and Hurlburt Office of Special Investigation discovered an explosive device in the back of a truck that had base access after receiving an anonymous tip Tuesday morning."
Photo link from the link in post no. 1:
http://nwfdailynews.emeraldcoastphotoswest.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=647257
http://www.pnj.com/article/20081202/NEWS01/81202026
“Bomb threat triggers Hurlburt alert”
TRAVIS GRIGGS • TGRIGGS@PNJ.COM • DECEMBER 2, 2008
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “HURLBURT FIELD — Members of the Bay County bomb squad have discovered an “explosive device” in the back of a pickup at an apartment complex in Fort Walton Beach, and have asked the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to help handle the device.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Nicholson said the bomb squad was called in as a precaution, but after investigating the object, the bomb squad determined it was an explosive device.
Nicholson said deputies had located the owner of the truck, and when questioned, he said he did not know what the suspicious object in the bed of his truck was, or how it got there.”
So as things stood this would not have caused any damage?
:rolleyes
Hurlburt found a bomb and Mona got an email
“The evacuation remained in effect until the bomb was diffused.”
The word is DEFUSED. If the bomb which did not exist but nevertheless had to be ‘diffused” ( according to that mash of incomprehensible gibberish with which you graced us) had gone “bang” then its particles would have been DIFFUSED. As it was, we were lucky that they were able to diffuse the non-existent bomb, I guess..
My God, what a bunch of illiterate morons we have for newsies.
I bet you went into journalism to “make a difference” didn’t you?
Security test/drill. Good move having ATF hold the bomb, too bad it wasn’t real.
There is no such thing as an "untraceable phone". The caller might have used a pay phone, but where the heck do you find those these days?
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