{"id":101547,"date":"2016-05-27T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101547"},"modified":"2016-06-03T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:33:32","slug":"suspected-explosive-device-removed-fri-jmst-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101547","title":{"rendered":"Suspected explosive device removed SW Jamestown Fri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31576\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPD-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"JPD\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPD-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPD-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPD.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Authorities were called to a Southwest Jamestown business late Friday morning where a suspected explosive device was spotted.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Assistant Police Chief, Maj. John Johnson says police responded at 11:44 a.m., to GCR Tires &amp; Service\u00a0at\u00a0 1819 8th Avenue\u00a0near Highway 281 South.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, says an employee of the tire center found \u201ca homemade explosive device\u201d behind the store.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u00a0reported that \u00a0officers created safe zone, blocking off access to the area\u00a0for about a\u00a0half block.\u00a0Individuals in the safe zone were\u00a0apprised of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Red River Regional Bomb Squad from Fargo was called,\u00a0 and arrived on the scene at 2:20 pm,\u00a0 removing\u00a0the suspected explosive device from behind the building.<\/p>\n<p>GCR Tires &amp; Service was evacuated when the bomb squad removed the device.<\/p>\n<p>He says the device was a half a football in size, and was wrapped in tape, appearing to have something inside it.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson adds, \u201cThere were fuses or something sticking out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the bomb squad took the device back to Fargo where it will be analyzed and the findings will be sent to the Jamestown Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Authorities were called to a Southwest Jamestown business late Friday morning where a suspected explosive device was spotted. Jamestown Assistant Police Chief, Maj. John Johnson says police responded at 11:44 a.m., to GCR Tires &amp; Service\u00a0at\u00a0 1819 8th Avenue\u00a0near Highway 281 South. Johnson, says an employee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101547"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101566,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101547\/revisions\/101566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}