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On 10 July 2024, at approximately 0203 hours local time, an Atlantic City Police Department (ACPD) officer saw an explosion on a sidewalk in the 1500 block of Atlantic Avenue and a suspect fleeing the scene. Surveillance video revealed the suspect functioning an unspecified explosive device. No injuries or damages were reported. No further device-related details were provided.
On 5 July 2024, at approximately 1330 hours local time, an Albert Lea Police Department officer attempted to stop a vehicle on Hammer Road and Sorenson Road for a traffic violation. After failing to yield to the officer’s emergency lights and siren, the vehicle stopped on Paradise Road. The officer placed the 48-year-old male driver of the car under arrest for driving on a revoked driver’s license, suspected driving under the influence of a controlled substance, and fleeing the officer in a motor vehicle.
On 27 June 2024, at approximately 1700 hours local time, two 11-year-old girls functioned a pyrotechnic device at their home in River Rogue, resulting in serious injuries. The children discovered a pyrotechnic device in the house and, believing it to be a sparkler, lit it in a bathroom. After realizing the device was not a sparkler, they attempted to remove the device from the home; however, it functioned, severely injuring one girl’s hand and burning the other child.
On 28 June 2024, at approximately 0800 hours local time, Haverhill Police Department (HPD) officers and Haverhill Fire Department crews responded to Rosebud Avenue after a woman informed HPD her husband had explosive devices in and around their home. Massachusetts State Fire Marshal’s Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit technicians responded to assist and disposed of three explosive devices and explosive material via controlled detonations. The 60-year-old male suspect was arrested after Massachusetts State Police officers pulled him over on Interstate 495 in Wrentham.
On 2 July 2024, a 64-year-old man in North Andover allegedly functioned an unspecified explosive device that damaged two vehicles and then attempted to conceal the damage with spray paint. Later that day, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies searched the suspect's residence on Village Green Drive. At the residence, authorities discovered a cache of more than 30 weapons, large-capacity ammunition feeders, and additional homemade explosive devices. Many of the guns lacked serial numbers, and the suspect’s license to carry weapons expired in 2000.
On 6 July 2024, at approximately 1830 hours local time, authorities received reports that an improvised incendiary device (IID) described as a Molotov cocktail was functioned on the railroad tracks between Pleasant Street and the Maine Behavioral Health building in Rockland. The IID consisted of a gasoline-filled bottle with a burning cloth stuffed inside. The Rockland Police Department and Rockland Fire Department responded to the scene and extinguished the fire. They also located a second similar IID, which had not been ignited, further west on the tracks.
On 26 June 2024, at approximately 1100 hours local time, the Wichita Fire Department (WFD) received an anonymous tip that pyrotechnic devices were being sold illegally at a business in the 3900 block of East Harry Street. WFD personnel and Wichita Police Department (WPD) officers responded to the business and discovered evidence of the illegal sale of pyrotechnic devices. WPD officers arrested a 64-year-old man at the scene for criminal use of explosives in connection with the incident.
On 20 June 2024, the Riverside Police Department, Riverside Fire Department Arson Investigations Unit, and State Fire Marshal’s Office agents discovered approximately 1,000 lb of pyrotechnics and 100 M-80 explosive devices while searching a residential property in the 5800 block of Clifton Avenue in Riverside. The bulk of the explosives were found on the backyard patio. A 23-year-old male suspect was arrested on suspicion of possession of destructive devices, possession of unlicensed pyrotechnics, possession of an illicit firearm, and child endangerment.
On 1 July 2024, at approximately 1750 hours local time, the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Indians Road in Janesville after individuals clearing out the home found explosives in an ice chest. Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Consolidated Bomb Squad technicians responded to assist, examined the explosives, determined they were sticks of dynamite in advanced stages of decomposition, and removed them from the scene via a robot and a blast container for disposal at a safe location.
On 3 July 2024, detectives with the Kern County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) Rural Crime Investigation Unit discovered multiple IEDs, including one described as a pipe bomb, as well as bomb-making material (BMM), copper wiring, and tools for electrical wire theft while searching a home in the 8200 block of Halleluiah Street in southeast Bakersfield. Two male suspects, ages 26 and 32, and a 53-year-old female suspect were arrested. The Kern County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, Kern County Probation Department, and KCSO Lamont Substation assisted with the incident.