Thread: Improvised Explosive Device Discovered In Brownsville

Improvised Explosive Device Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Reported by: Cristina Rendon
Last Update: 9:35 am

BROWNSVILLE - Police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732 overpass and alerted authorities around 5 p.m. Sunday.

The improvised explosive device or I-E-D was disarmed by a bomb squad using a robot. No one was hurt. Parts of Highway 77 were closed for several hours.

Police are continuing to investigate.

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Police: IED on expressway had no detonator
April 25, 2011 12:30 PM
By LAURA B. MARTINEZ, The Brownsville Herald

Brownsville police are releasing few 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, said police spokesman Eddie Garcia.

Garcia said the device was poorly constructed and would not have expoded because it did not contain a detonator, the element used to trigger an explosive.

Authorities shut down the expressway’s southbound lane from FM 1732 to Alton Gloor Boulevard for about three hours, while the police department’s bomb squad checked out the device, Garcia said.

At about 6:45 p.m. the bomb squad "rendered the device safe," Garcia said. The southbound lane of the expressway reopened at 8 p.m.

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