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Suspicious device in Pullman is still suspicious

Pullman Police still aren't sure what this device is that a group of teens discovered under the Spring Street Bridge in Pullman Tuesday night.Right now they still don't know.

Explosives stolen from Truckee magazine

Federal and local investigators are searching for a large amount of explosives stolen from an explosives magazine in Truckee.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible, or for the recovery of the materials.

The explosives, taken from a location near Interstate 80, could have been stolen within the past 10 days, according to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.

White powder in shipment from China puts local authorities on alert

The discovery of white powder in an overseas shipment at a Pulaski County manufacturing company led to an eight-hour quarantine for 18 people Wednesday.

Employees of Crain Enterprises, which makes measuring tools and geomatics equipment for use in construction, reported they found several bags of white powder in box that came from a company in China. Once they made the discovery officials called in haz-mat teams from the county and Marion, who were unable to determine the safety of the powder through local tests.

Bombmakers could be identified using fingerprint analysis technique

The state-of-the-art forensic method that can identify fingerprints on bullets could now be used on bombs. The new techniques can pick up fingerprints on metal even after they have been wiped off.

Thanks MamaDearest for the article.

Here’s another with photos — by a blogger.
It was an engineering project.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63901

Here’s also another link:

http://www.dnews.com/breaking-news/606/

I’m going to link to the Truckee incident, MamaDearest.
I’m noting you posted there is a $10,000 reward.
Good.

Adding a detail:

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=47870

“Explosive Fertilizer, Blasting Caps Stolen in Nevada County”
Posted By: C. Johnson George Warren 2 hrs ago
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “FLORISTON (NEVADA COUNTY), CA - News10 has learned the theft of explosives from a mountainside bunker east of Truckee involved hundreds of pounds of high-yield fertilizer and blasting caps.

The remote location ten miles west of the Nevada state line offered the thieves privacy while allowing the crime to go undetected for up to a week and a half.

The thieves removed the doors from the two steel vaults by sawing through the hinges. The heavy doors still lay on the ground in front of the vaults covered with fingerprint powder.

The Nevada County Sheriff’s Department and ATF declined to discuss the type of explosives taken, saying only that they belonged to a licensed contractor who owned and stored them legally.”