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A pipe bomb (in center with red fuse) was found in a car in Glenwood Springs after the back seat was removed from the vehicle to install speakers. The Grand Junction Hazardous Device Response Team — a group consisting of city police and fire personnel — was called Saturday and drove to Glenwood to defuse the device.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Grand Junction’s bomb squad was on the road Saturday when a suspected pipe bomb was found as technicians installed audio equipment in a car in Glenwood Springs.
The manager of the Glenwood store said he uncovered the explosive after he removed the car’s back seat to install speakers.
“It was kind of unreal,” said Jason Parrish, manager of Rollin Audio. “It didn’t look like much. It just looked like a pipe with a piece of string coming out of the end of it.”
Parrish and other employees gently rolled the vehicle from the building and called police.
Glenwood Springs police arrived on scene about the same time the car’s owner, Scott Stricklan, 18, came by to check on his car, according to Parrish. Police arrested Stricklan, and he was later booked into the Garfield County Jail on several charges, including possession of explosive devices, a class four felony, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor.
The Grand Junction Hazardous Device Response Team helped defuse the bomb, Police Chief Terry Wilson said. According to Wilson, the bomb squad removed the pipe bomb, which was a steel pipe about 3/4-inch in diameter and 10 inches in length, and used a mechanism to defuse the device. They were able to remove the contents, but Wilson could not speculate on what exactly it was. However, Wilson described it as some kind of “black powder.”
Wilson couldn’t speculate on how powerful an explosion the device was capable of.
The incident led Glenwood police and federal authorities to seek a search warrant of Stricklan’s residence in Rifle, where he reportedly lives with at least one parent, Wilson said.
Authorities discovered other items associated with assembly of a pipe bomb, according to Wilson. Authorities also allegedly found marijuana, hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms and other paraphernalia, resulting in several drug-related charges, Wilson said.
Those charges include two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of more than one ounce but less than eight ounces of marijuana, possession of a controlled hallucinogenic substance, a felony, and possession of a synthetic schedule IV narcotic, another felony.
Stricklan faces three felony charges and an undetermined number of misdemeanor counts.
Grand Junction Police Corporal Tyler Simonson said the local bomb unit has standing agreements with various law enforcement agencies across the region to respond when called.
“We’re really the only Western Slope agency with that sort of capability,” Simonson said.
The manager of the Glenwood store said he uncovered the explosive after he removed the car’s back seat to install speakers.
“It was kind of unreal,” said Jason Parrish, manager of Rollin Audio. “It didn’t look like much. It just looked like a pipe with a piece of string coming out of the end of it.”
Parrish and other employees gently rolled the vehicle from the building and called police.
Glenwood Springs police arrived on scene about the same time the car’s owner, Scott Stricklan, 18, came by to check on his car, according to Parrish. Police arrested Stricklan, and he was later booked into the Garfield County Jail on several charges, including possession of explosive devices, a class four felony, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor.
The Grand Junction Hazardous Device Response Team helped defuse the bomb, Police Chief Terry Wilson said. According to Wilson, the bomb squad removed the pipe bomb, which was a steel pipe about 3/4-inch in diameter and 10 inches in length, and used a mechanism to defuse the device. They were able to remove the contents, but Wilson could not speculate on what exactly it was. However, Wilson described it as some kind of “black powder.”
Wilson couldn’t speculate on how powerful an explosion the device was capable of.
The incident led Glenwood police and federal authorities to seek a search warrant of Stricklan’s residence in Rifle, where he reportedly lives with at least one parent, Wilson said.
Authorities discovered other items associated with assembly of a pipe bomb, according to Wilson. Authorities also allegedly found marijuana, hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms and other paraphernalia, resulting in several drug-related charges, Wilson said.
Those charges include two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of more than one ounce but less than eight ounces of marijuana, possession of a controlled hallucinogenic substance, a felony, and possession of a synthetic schedule IV narcotic, another felony.
Stricklan faces three felony charges and an undetermined number of misdemeanor counts.
Grand Junction Police Corporal Tyler Simonson said the local bomb unit has standing agreements with various law enforcement agencies across the region to respond when called.
“We’re really the only Western Slope agency with that sort of capability,” Simonson said.
