Foreclosure Purchaser Unwittingly Buys Booby-Trapped Ex-Marijuana Grow House; Bomb Squad Called In To Diffuse Explosives

In St. Lucie County, Florida, WFLX-TV Channel 29 reports:

• An electrician makes an explosive find in the attic of a local home. The previous owner had left a booby trap. The people who bought the home got it in foreclosure. It was a fixer-upper, and they were having some work done on it. But they had no idea about the danger that remained: A bomb in the attic that could have gone off at any moment.

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• An air conditioning contractor was working on the air ducts in the attic when he found the device and immediately dialed 911. "It's a booby trap," said St. Lucie County Lieutenant Larry Hostetler. Turns out, the home was a marijuana grow house shut down by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's office in 2006. The device had a trip wire attached to it and could have set the whole house on fire. Booby traps are used "to conceal evidence or injure law enforcement officers who are taking down the grow house," said Hostetler.

For more, see Bomb squad diffuses potentially explosive situation.

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