Update: IED (Improvised Explosive Device) found March 9 at LFP - Shoreline border
Thursday, March 21, 2024
On March 9, 2024 at around 5:15pm Lake Forest Park Police officers were finishing a call on 30 Ave NE when a man out walking his dog contacted them.
He advised that he had just found an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). The man found it on the west shoulder of 30 Ave NE in the 20100 block, just inside the City of Shoreline.
He moved it from in front of a residential driveway and placed it on a rock wall. LFPPD officers approached the device, which appeared to be a tightly wrapped bomb the size of a toilet-paper roll, with a fuse attached.
LFPPD stayed on scene while King County Sheriff deputies responded. The roadway was closed and KCSO Bomb Squad personnel arrived and safely collected the device.
Thank you to that alert citizen.We recommend that citizens not touch or manipulate any suspicious device and that they also avoid using radio or cell phones near the device. Get a safe distance away before calling 911.
--LFP Police Department
Update: The King County Sheriff's Media office responded that the item was later disposed of by the KCSO Bomb Disposal Unit/BDU.
There are no suspects and no arrests were made. The case is active and open.
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4 comments:
The public deserves more information than this. You can't share that you disposed of a bomb in the same general way you share that there was a theft of a car. How big was the bomb? You say it is an IED but describe it like it is a firework. This is not a warzone. IEDs are not expected in a city. Please be more specific so you don't cause panic. Thank you.
Completely agree with the first comment. This was treated far too casually in the writeup! True even if you had scant details. It's the way in which it was presented here.
Luckily it wasn’t a kid who found it.
Size of a toilet paper roll..DA! Read it again
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