TRIPwire, 9 June 2022

On 8 June 2022, Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a construction work zone in the Greenhead area after observing a male behaving suspiciously. The 28-year-old suspect provided consent for his backpack to be searched, where deputies discovered an IED, described as a pipe bomb with no initiator, among weapons and drug paraphernalia. No further device details have been released. The suspect was arrested and charged with possession of explosives, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

TRIPwire, 9 June 2022

On 7 June 2022, at approximately 1115 hours local time, Minot Police Department (MPD) officers arrested a 36-year-old suspect at his workplace in Southeast Minot under suspicion that he had made an online threat against a local hospital on 1 June. A subsequent search of the suspect’s Northwest Minot home uncovered two explosive devices and seven firearms. MPD Bomb Squad and Minot Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians removed the devices and rendered them safe. MPD officers also recovered a firearm from the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of an explosive device, eight counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, one count of terrorizing, one count of menacing, and one count of harassment.

TRIPwire, 8 June 2022

On 7 June 2022, the Amherst Police Department (APD), Eggertsville Hose Company, Getzville Fire Department, North Baily Fire Department, and the Snyder Fire Department responded to a medical office in Buffalo after suspects broke windows and set a fire using an improvised incendiary device (IID) inside the building. No further device details have been released. The medical office suffered extensive damage and the investigation is ongoing.

TRIPwire, 8 June 2022

On 5 June 2022, at approximately 0137 hours local time, Arkansas State Capitol Police and Little Rock Police Department officers responded after a 31-year-old male suspect threw an improvised incendiary device (IID), described as a Molotov cocktail, toward the Capitol building in Little Rock, which subsequently started a fire on the grass. The suspect threw a second IID at the Confederate Soldiers of Arkansas monument, setting it on fire. The suspect was found in possession of a glass bottle filled with liquid that smelled like gasoline with a paper-towel type material inserted into it and used as a wick as he was arrested. Police also found a gasoline canister in the suspect’s vehicle and the Little Rock Fire Department fire marshal and bomb squad unit, and ATF responded to assist. The suspect was charged with a federal offense of possession of an unregistered firearm or destructive device, and two misdemeanor counts of first-degree criminal mischief, and a misdemeanor violation of the Arkansas State Capitol and Historical Monument Protection Act.