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Mon Nov 26, 2018, 12:47 PM Nov 2018

Explosive materials ignite in Leander home; charges pending

A Leander man was taken to a hospital Sunday after his homemade explosives ignited, Leander police said.

Steven Aldrich, 60, called 911 after he was injured from the explosion around 7:20 p.m. Sunday. Police also evacuated nearby homes.

Aldrich was taken to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center with injuries not expected to be life-threatening after police found him at his home on the 700 block of Newcastle Lane.

“Basically what he was doing was making material that could explode, but he was not making any bomb,” said Leander police spokesman Billy Fletcher. “It was an explosive substance that he was dealing with.”

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20181125/explosive-materials-ignite-in-leander-home-charges-pending

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