Posted on 10/22/2025 8:07:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators in Wyoming sought to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol, causing the building’s evacuation after a passerby found the object and brought it inside.
The bomb, at a time of heightened political angst in the U.S., put the sleepy capital of the least-populated state on edge for awhile, with drones overhead and officers with bomb-sniffing dogs combing the Capitol grounds. But a day later, things appeared back to normal.
No security was visible at the 135-year-old, sandstone building where visitors have always been able to more or less wander among the state’s most powerful elected officials at will.
“It’s a fantastic reflection of almost a happiness to trust people. Which is positive and should be retained,” observed English tourist Jaume Vilar, who was visiting the building with his teenage son.
The device was left sometime early Tuesday. Described by Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Commander Ryan Cox on Wednesday as a “deconstructed live firework munition with a fuse” measuring less than a foot (30 centimeters) long, it was not rigged to explode remotely.
“It would’ve had to been lit with a lighter, or similar-type fashion,” Cox said.
It was not in a bag or other container when put on the state seal, a round, 10-foot-wide (3-meter-wide) decoration of inlaid stone midway between the Capitol front steps and the street, sometime between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.. The seal is cordoned off behind a chain.
The unidentified passerby, whom authorities soon ruled out as a suspect, brought the object into the building. An evacuation ensued at 9:45 a.m. and lasted all day.
Those evacuated included Gov. Mark Gordon, who along with the state treasurer and state auditor was in a committee meeting in a nearby basement-level conference...
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"Oh, a friend asked me to drop this off in the building."
Is there no "smell test" in Wyoming?
Let me guess: antifa up to their usual tricks.
” a passerby found the object and brought it inside.”
This “passerby” should be jailed for a month just for stupidity.
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