Homemade Bomb On Barge Dismantled By West Virginia Police No Suspects Yet
Local state and federal authorities responded to the scene around 8 a.m. on Thursday. Pleasants County Sheriff Chuck Mankins said the explosive device was dismantled that afternoon, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported. “Apparently, they noticed it down at the (Willow Island) locks and dam,” Mankins said. The barge was on the Ohio River near the Pleasants/Tyler County Line. “They spotted something that didn’t look right to them.” Police appeared to be setting up multiple points in the area by a nursery off West Virginia 2 on the Pleasants County side, but not far away from Tyler County, according to the outlet....