St. Paul police find pipe bomb in car, 2 in custody
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Updated: 4:04 p.m. | Posted: 9:09 a.m.
St. Paul police say two people are in custody after the department's bomb squad removed an explosive device from a car on the city's east side Saturday morning.
Hours before, police received a report of two men threatening a woman with a handgun at a Super America store on the east side.
Police Spokesman Steve Linders said officers stopped the suspect vehicle off of Maryland Avenue, just south of Lake Phalen, around 5 a.m.
"In the course of their investigation, they discovered two adult males inside the car, they found two handguns inside the car and in the trunk of the vehicle was a suspected pipe bomb," said Linders. "The bomb squad took possession of the device and is working to determine exactly what it is, whether or not it was explosive."
Linders said officers temporarily evacuated some nearby homes until it was safe to return.
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