UPDATE: The All Clear has been Given After Pipe Bomb Found At A Pocono Country Place
By: laurie monteforte
Updated: October 23, 2012
Near Tobyhanna, Monroe County-
UPDATE: 5:40 pm The All clear has been given. The Roads are now open. Charges will be filed against a 20 year old man. The pipe bomb was found in his parents home. It could be considered a weapon of mass destruction. He could possibility face federal charges. The District Attorney is sorting through the facts. The bomb was detonated just before five. No on hurt- The all clear has been given and roads are now open.
UPDATE: The robot has the bomb and is carrying it to a site to be safely detonated.
Robot Carrying the Bomb down Sunnyside Drive
A bomb squad has been called to A Pocono Country Place. The crews are stationed at the intersection of Knollwood and Sunnyside Drives.
According to our Laurie Monteforte who is on scene a pipe bomb was found inside a house on Sunnyside Drive.
A member of the bomb squad is suited up and going inside the house. The bomb will be handed to a robot who will take the bomb down Sunnyside Drive to the community center where it will be detonated.
People who live on Sunnyside Drive are not being allowed outside their homes. School buses will not be allow to enter the Knollwood Drive section of the development. Parents can pick up their children at the front gate or wait until the all clear is given.
Laurie Monteforte will have more on Eyewitness News.
From Laurie Monteforte
UPDATE: 5:40 pm The All clear has been given. The Roads are now open. Charges will be filed against a 20 year old man. The pipe bomb was found in his parents home. It could be considered a weapon of mass destruction. He could possibility face federal charges. The District Attorney is sorting through the facts. The bomb was detonated just before five. No on hurt- The all clear has been given and roads are now open.
UPDATE: The robot has the bomb and is carrying it to a site to be safely detonated.
Robot Carrying the Bomb down Sunnyside DriveA bomb squad has been called to A Pocono Country Place. The crews are stationed at the intersection of Knollwood and Sunnyside Drives.
According to our Laurie Monteforte who is on scene a pipe bomb was found inside a house on Sunnyside Drive.
A member of the bomb squad is suited up and going inside the house. The bomb will be handed to a robot who will take the bomb down Sunnyside Drive to the community center where it will be detonated.
People who live on Sunnyside Drive are not being allowed outside their homes. School buses will not be allow to enter the Knollwood Drive section of the development. Parents can pick up their children at the front gate or wait until the all clear is given.
Laurie Monteforte will have more on Eyewitness News.
From Laurie Monteforte 