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On 7 January 2025, at approximately 1812 hours local time, General Inspectorate of Border Police officers flagged a suspicious package during routine postal inspections and discovered an IED hidden inside a remote-controlled toy car at the Chișinău International Airport. The package reportedly originated from Ukraine and was bound for Tbilisi, Georgia. Authorities isolated the package and called in bomb disposal experts from the BOMBTEH unit, who successfully rendered safe the IED. The investigation is ongoing.

On 17 December 2024, multiple law enforcement agencies, bomb technicians, and federal investigators, including the FBI, searched a 20-acre farm on Foursquare Road in Isle of Wight County and seized more than 150 pipe bombs and other IEDs, homemade explosives (HME), and BMM. The majority of the finished IEDs, as well as several training aids, were discovered in a detached garage, and some of which had been inserted into a wearable vest.

On 26 December 2024, Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) investigators executed a search warrant at a home in Valparaiso and discovered nine explosive devices, a stolen shotgun, a rifle, and a small quantity of unspecified drugs. Based on a photo, six of the IEDs were red, white, and blue striped cylindrical tubes capped on both ends with fuses protruding from one end, while another pictured device was a larger cylindrical tube wrapped in green tape, sealed on both ends and possessing a fuse.

On 1 January 2025, at approximately 0000 hours local time, the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) and other local first responders responded to an explosion at a residence on Keaka Drive in Honolulu caused by illegal aerial pyrotechnics falling onto crates of additional pyrotechnics killing four people and injuring 20 others. The home caught fire and sustained extensive damage. HPD’s Specialized Services Division Bomb Unit responded to assist and rendered safe other pyrotechnics that were found but did not function. The investigation is ongoing.  

On 2 January 2025, Airway Heights Police Department officers and Stevens County Sheriff’s Office deputies discovered an IED while searching a residence on the 13000 block of West 6th Avenue in Airway Heights during an identity theft investigation. Explosive Disposal Unit technicians from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and Spokane Police Department were called to remove the explosive device, described as a “2-foot-long pipe-shaped object with fuses sticking out of the top.” Authorities also discovered seven additional IEDs in the suspect’s vehicle.