I: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT

On 22 January 2025, at approximately 1950 hours local time, Nashua Police Department officers and Nashua Fire Rescue crews responded to the 60th block of West Hollis Street in Nashua following reports of two passenger cars and a pick-up truck on fire in the area. Crews extinguished the fires, and no injuries were reported. According to police, video camera footage captured an unidentified suspect with a possible improvised incendiary device (IID), described as a Molotov cocktail, before they threw it at a vehicle, prompting a fire, which then spread to at least two other vehicles.

On 18 January 2025, at approximately 1830 hours local time, Longmeadow Police Department officers, Massachusetts State Police troopers, and members of the DEA conducted a search of a residence on the 80th block of South Avenue in Longmeadow as part of an investigation for alleged drug activity. Officers removed three occupants from the home after learning they were in possession of a device. During the search, officers discovered an item that resembled an incendiary device.

On 1 December 2024, at approximately 1225 hours local time, the Fairfield Police Department was notified by a local hospital that a patient was being treated for an injury after allegedly building and detonating IEDs in the Pine Creek Marsh in Fairfield. According to authorities, two male suspects made four IEDs; two IEDs were functioned while one IED functioned prematurely, injuring one suspect. The Stamford Police Department Bomb Squad was called to assist and removed the IED that remained at the marsh.

On 12 September 2024, at approximately 0830 hours local time, Vermont State Police (VSP) received a report of vandalism at a residence on Georgia Shore Road in the town of Georgia. Neighbors told VSP troopers that they heard an explosion on 10 September at approximately 2030 hours. According to VSP, an unspecified explosive device functioned and destroyed a mailbox. No further device details were provided. The investigation is ongoing. 

On 26 August 2024, a Yarmouth resident turned in ammunition and ordnance, described as a live cannonball, to the Yarmouth Police Department. Portland Police Department’s Hazardous Devices Unit and the Maine State Police Bomb Squad were called to assist, and bomb squad technicians rendered the cannonball safe.

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