[Velveeta]

Police investigating suspicious container in Princeton; Iowa man in custody

PRINCETON, Illinois – A bomb squad has been called in to investigate a suspicious container found in a van at a Princeton gas station.

Police say a man drove into a Shell station just off of the Interstate 80 / Illinois 26 interchange around 3:30 a.m. The station’s manager says the man told the attendant on duty that he had explosives and that he was going to Washington.

A truck driver tipped off police to the van. Police say the driver heard talk over CB radio about the van. He saw the van in Walcott, Iowa and followed the van roughly 80 miles until the van pulled into the Shell station.

While searching the van, police came across a suspicious container and called a bomb squad from Springfield. The Secret Service is also investigating the incident.

The van’s driver, Terry Daniel, 44, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was taken to the Bureau County Jail.
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=3588950&nav=1sW7c5VB

[appalachian_dweller]

>> the man told the attendant on duty that he had explosives and that he was going to Washington <<

Sounds like this guy was a nut case. If he was serious I don't think he'd be telling anyone what he was up to.

Any idea on the man's ethnicity or nationality?

Ops..racial profiling....can't do that...better for innocents to die. /sarc

[Velveeta]

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