Car Full of Explosives Stopped in New Haven (CT); Area Cordoned Off

[Ian David]

Source: Associated Press (via WTIC)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ New Haven police say they've arrested a man after stopping a car full of explosives last night.

Police say the car was carrying pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank.

They say they closed off a four-block area because of the danger posed by the explosives but didn't evacuated it.

Police have not released the name of the man they arrested. The bomb squad was called in. There are no reports of injuries.




Read more: http://www.wtic.com/Car-Full-of-Explosives-Stopped-in-New-Haven--Area-/5384442

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Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/lshelby/statuses/4685079366


Not to jump to conclusions, but I bet this was another Teabagger.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Well, Yale and I-95 are right there. nt

[Renew Deal]

48. As well as several naval bases, and two casinos

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

62. Both those are about 40 miles east

in the New London/Groton area.

[louis-t]

2. Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh listener , no doubt.

I've been saying for many years: one of these days, some nut will do something really stupid, thinking he will impress his heroes on right-wing radio.

[xultar]

3. It was a white doode. They got lucky. Home grown terrorism is a dirty

secret no one wants to discuss.

[Taverner]

4. That's what I'd put my money on

[slackmaster]

13. I love this game!

[intheflow]

17. Yep.

This is a story about "a man", not a man of Middle Eastern heritage, not a "suspected terrorist". It was just a traffic stop, not thwarting a terror plot. Sure sound like a white guy to me.

[newtothegame]

19. Yeah they're usually right on the race. Just like with the snipers in DC right?

An angry white christian male? Oh wait...

Thanks for making it about race babe, appreciate it. You make DU a better place to be. :sarcasm:

ed for sp

[The Animator]

24. I remember when that story first broke...

I thought it was Mr. Rogers for sure...

[xultar]

53. They busted a black doode earlier in September. I figured he couldn't be black...they got that guy.

what are the odds on them arresting to crazy ass back doodes with pipe bombs in less than a month?

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Man-Pulled-Over-with-Pipe-Bombs--57604602.html

[Winterblues]

5. Call in the 81st Airborne

Don't we fight terrorism with Military? Bush* Cabal said it was not a Criminal Matter but one of National Defense and calls only for the Military. Remember how they harangued Kerry over this very issue?

[pecwae]

6. Where's the 81st stationed?

[cliffordu]

18. In the fertile imagination of that one's brain.

[Winterblues]

29. Been over forty years since I've been in the Service... 82nd Airborne

is what I meant... :spank: Me bad...Brain Farts happen even to the best of us

[RaleighNCDUer]

33. Confused? It's the 82nd Airborne or the 81st Chairborn.

Which is it?

[kestrel91316]

7. My money is on a RW McVeigh wannabe, probably a birther

or militia type.

[CTyankee]

8. Not too much info on local news at noon today...

He was stopped in an area of New Haven that has had crime problems...don't know yet if it is related to the general crime situation or something more political...

[JanusAscending]

32. Isn't Joe Biden in town this week?

I know Obama is supposed to be in the State this month to campaign for Chris Dodd. I'm glad the guys in blue are on the alert!!

[JerseygirlCT]

54. Interesting point...

I'm pretty sure I heard that he was here yesterday, at least.

[uberblonde]

9. You never know.

It could be a "pro-life" activist.

[Ian David]

10. He COULD also be going after David Letterman. n/t

[CTyankee]

12. I guess he could have been headed for the Planned Parenthood clinic here in New Haven.

They do abortions in that clinic. He was stopped in the Fair Haven section of New Haven. The clinic is on a major thoroughfare in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood, which is very nice...

[snooper2]

16. Or it could be a "PETA fan going overboard"

just never know till the facts come out do we?

[uberblonde]

11. Oh, and the car?

It was a Mercedes, according to other accounts.

[Dr.Phool]

15. Maybe he was going to visit his broker?

[Joanne98]

39. LOL Good one!

[Ozymanithrax]

14. Another conservative terrorist?

So is this another incident of Conservative Terrorists? Does the guy just like to make boom boom?

Can't wait to see if this gets explained away, buried, or forgotten.

[Tesha]

20. Maybe he was just trying to rid the world of cheap Swedish-designed click-together furniture? (NT)

[Sabriel]

27. That stuff's definitely not "click together"

And I myself have sometimes wanted to blow up the store that designed a dresser with eight little drawers that all have to be painstakingly assembled.

[Historic NY]

21. its was a Mercedes...

http://www.fox61.com/news/wtic-new-haven-explosive-car-1007-pictures,0,6686122.photogallery

[Ian David]

22. Could you find a bigger photo? n/t

[Historic NY]

23. oops fixed.....

[heliarc]

25. I knew it!

He was a douchebag!

[Ian David]

26. Photo of suspect...

[DBoon]

30. They busted Ted Nugent? (nt)

[No Elephants]

52. LOL!

[d_r]

42. OK but

what is that guy in the picture doing? I mean, huh?

[sakabatou]

28. Who wants to bet Fox will blame it on the left?

[slackmaster]

37. I think they are more likely to blame Muslims

Muslims with money and short on brains.

[sakabatou]

38. That too

[Altoid_Cyclist]

31. I haven't lived in CT for 20 years, but is there still a US Surgical plant in North Haven?

I remember a woman hiring some bikers to try to kill the head of the company in Norwalk. Maybe they were coming back to finish the job.
:sarcasm:

I just wanted to make some sort of speculative statement instead of waiting for the actual details.

On a serious note, New Haven hasn't been getting a lot of good news stories the last few weeks.

Oops! I meant to reply to #16

[Viva_La_Revolution]

34. update... two arrested..

Police in Connecticut say they have arrested two people after stopping a car full of explosives in a New Haven residential neighborhood.

New Haven Officer Joseph Avery says police don't know if the suspects planned to use the explosives, because they're not talking much to investigators. Police haven't released their names yet.

Officers say they stopped the car Tuesday night and found pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank.
Authorities closed off a four-block area, but didn't order an evacuation. A bomb squad detonated the explosives without incident.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkdiofTb5zoiEOhT_hlg0k2EbTkQD9B6D7900

FBI Joins Investigation
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561587,00.html

[Dr.Phool]

36. Lieberman and who else?

Dodd don't seem smart enough to make a bomb.

[bertman]

35. "Police don't know if they intended to use them." I guess they could have been going

somewhere to sell them.

This sounds like someone dropped a dime on these guys. Otherwise, how would the police have known they were transporting explosives? Not very difficult to conceal them.

I can hardly wait to hear the details.

[Joe Chi Minh]

40. Traffic stop or not, I wouldn't put it past your security services to have monitored them

for a good while.

Of course, the UK is a very much smaller country, and our spy service goes back to Walsingham, I think, in Elizabethan times, but I don't think there's a lot they miss.

[winyanstaz]

41. It could also be an agent provocateur..another false opp..

We wont know for sure until everything comes out.
You know that the neocons and the rest of the NWO ....NEED another 9-11 or they are DOOOOOOOOOMMMMED!!!!
And then again...with all the hatemongers...could just be another teabagging nut loose.

[peace13]

43. Did the driver have Shooter's phone number on him?

That is a sure tell that they intended to use them.

[BR_Parkway]

44. New Twitter saying man jumps off 7th floor parking garage - I wonder if they are

related?

http://twitter.com/Erik_Sweet/statuses/4689950302

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. So many questions.

"full of" explosives means what?

It is so sad that the credibility of the FBI and the news is so low, after they bumbled and fumbled thru so many "informant incited" so called terrorist threats.
All Bush succeeded at was making me a hard line skeptic.

[cachukis]

46. A link

http://nhregister.com/articles/2009/10/07/news/doc4acc85f7019c1251918689.prt

[truthisfreedom]

47. So the "Car full of explosives" is pretty overblown. One pipe bomb, one propane tank.

Not exactly the car full of explosives, huh?

[leftynyc]

50. I'm thinking a pipe bomb

with a full tank of propane can make a pretty impressive car bomb.

[Fastcars]

51. But Probably ....

Not as impressive as a car with two propane tanks and no pipe bombs.

Pretty big difference between "car full of explosives" "pipe bombS" and car with a propane tank and "A" pipe bomb.

I will have to wait and see on this one.

[slackmaster]

57. It probably had about 20 gallons of gasoline too

You could blow up a lot of stuff with that.

[scheming daemons]

49. Wonder what his freerepublic username is...

..

[Ian David]

55. You know what you call a Freeper with a Mercedes?

A thief.

[alfredo]

59. Rich man's spoiled son?

[Danascot]

56. More news

He was arrested for a "smoke bomb" incident in March

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/new-haven-police-find-pip_n_312680.html

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/10/christian-bomber-arrested-in-conn.html

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/connecticut/ap_conn_Conn_man_charged_with_making_bombs_200903171341

http://zip06.theday.com/blogs/east_haven_courier/archive/2009/03/05/police-investigate-smoke-bomb-incident.aspx

[slackmaster]

58. Sounds like a pair of garden-variety pyros

Nothing to see here.

[d_r]

60. bag man?

Who is putting up the money that got a not-working-on-disability air conditioning repair man a mercedes?

[slackmaster]

61. Probably all of us, somehow

:-(

[Ian David]

64. Ooh! Good catch! n/t

[Dogtown]

63. Interesting...

He made the statement that he's "found God" as a result of rehab, but has been uncooperative otherwise. That single admission seems pointed.

I have some small knowledge of the Rehab Establishment and have been concerned for some time that it's being infiltrated by fundies looking to recruit. This has escalated with government funds made available for "faith-based" rehab programs, especially in privatised prison systems.


I'm not *stating* that he is a fundy-extremist. It seems more likely that he is just a guy into dangerous and self-destructive behaviors, but I will not be shocked if it turns out that he had an agenda.


I'm signing off for the evening, so the Xian-apologists that have flocked here to disrupt can flame away. If I have time tomorrow I'll check back and see if any flamers are worth addressing.

[Ian David]

65. Updates: Bomb suspect has similar case pending

Bomb suspect has similar case pending
By William Kaempffer, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — A Branford man arrested after police discovered a pipe bomb, shotguns, rubber gas masks and other items inside his Mercedes late Tuesday had been arrested earlier this year on bombmaking charges in East Haven.

John Iannucci, 38, was held at New Haven police headquarters for most of the day on a host of weapons and explosives charges. The arrest could likely complicate his current court case.

He is due in court Oct. 22 on the East Haven charges of illegal possession of explosives and illegal bomb manufacturing. He was free on $25,000 bail when he and a second man, identified as Jessup Bollinger, 27, were detained Tuesday night in the city’s Fair Haven section.

<snip>

East Haven police said Iannucci suffered hand and torso injuries in the Feb. 26 incident there. His silver Mercedes sustained significant damage to its interior, and investigators recovered pieces of the device and a packet of gunpowder in a medical bag containing insulin, police said.

In that time frame, East Haven police had received reports of stop signs being damaged near Iannucci’s home by exploding objects, witnesses stated, thrown from a silver Mercedes. Residue on the signs matched residue recovered in his car.

More:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/10/08/news/a3-bombincar.txt


Pipe bombs, rifles found in car stopped in Conn.
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (AP) – 14 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkdiofTb5zoiEOhT_hlg0k2EbTkQD9B6GKO01


Conn. police find pipe bombs, rifles, propane tank in car; 2 people arrested
http://blog.taragana.com/law/2009/10/07/conn-police-find-pipe-bombs-rifles-propane-tank-in-car-2-people-arrested-13949/

Police: Two Men Arrested With Pipe Bomb, Guns


Jessup Bollinger and John Iannucci

http://www.courant.com/community/new-haven/hc-web-new-haven-explosives-1008oct08,0,3526465.story