FARGO -- Fargo police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating a bomb -- housed in a Pringles potato chip can -- that was discovered in a south Fargo apartment garage Wednesday.
Lt. Joel Vettel said the tenants who rented the garage had moved out and it was being cleaned when the bomb was found at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 3100 block of 33rd Street South.
Officers set up a perimeter around the garage, and the Red River Valley Regional Bomb Squad using X-ray equipment determined that the device contained a variety of ingredients including gunpowder and BBs, Vettel said.
The bomb squad secured and moved the device, which Vettel said is one of the larger bombs police have found in the area.
"It certainly is something that we'd say would be dangerous for people to have," he said Thursday. "But again, we can't say anybody was in danger, because it doesn't appear it was set anywhere where somebody would happen upon it. It was in somebody's storage unit."
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The ATF is tracking down the former tenants and interviewing them to find out who made the bomb and why, Vettel said.
Under North Dakota law, possession of a bomb is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
