Brownsville Easter Bomb Investigation: IED Found in Texas Near Mexican Border (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 30, 2011
Safer than it’s ever been, right, Napolitano?
An improvised explosive device was found Easter afternoon on an expressway overpass near Brownsville, Texas, near the Mexican border.
KRGV News: Improvised Explosive Device Discovered on an Overpass in Brownsville, Texas
From Examiner, IED device found outside Brownsville, Texas closes highway on Easter:
The Brownsville Police Department confirmed reports that an IED device was disarmed by bomb disposal experts on Easter Sunday.
The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was located by a passerby who alerted authorities about the Highway 77/83 location. The scene of the IED bomb is located just 15 minutes north of the Texas/Mexico border.
Bomb squad personnel used a robot to successfully dismantle the explosive that closed the highway for several hours on Sunday afternoon.
Public Information Officer for the Brownsville Police Department, Eddie Garcia said the device had no detonation mechanism attached.
However, authorities say they are taking the IED device seriously as Mexico has seen an increase in the use of bombs by the drug cartels in Mexico.
From Borderland Beat, IED found on Brownsville expressway, Police search for Clues:
Brownsville police are releasing little details of an improvised explosive device found along U.S. Expressway 77/83 Sunday afternoon.
The “modified pineapple grenade” was discovered by a concerned citizen on the southbound lane of the expressway, who contacted authorities, police spokesman Eddie Garcia said.
Garcia said the homemade device was poorly constructed and had no detonator. However, if it had such a device and had exploded, it would have caused minimal damage to the expressway.
“There wouldn’t have been no serious damage because of its poor construction,” Garcia said. “At no time was there any danger to the infrastructure, the overpass nor the public really in any real danger.”
Police are in the process of trying to determine how the IED ended up on the roadway. On Monday, they continued to interview the person who discovered the device.
The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting in the case, which is protocol when such devices are found, authorities reported.
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The Brownsville Police Department confirmed reports that an IED device was disarmed by bomb disposal experts on Easter Sunday.
The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was located by a passerby who alerted authorities about the Highway 77/83 location. The scene of the IED bomb is located just 15 minutes north of the Texas/Mexico border.
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