Crime & Safety

‘Destructive Device’ Found in Reisterstown Driveway

The device, which did not detonate, was found Thursday, Jan. 10.

Baltimore County Police recovered a homemade “destructive device” from the driveway of a Reisterstown home on Thursday, Jan. 10.

"It was a piece of cardboard—a cardboard tube—with tape on both ends and a candle stuck in each end," Lt. Stephen Doarnberger, assistant commander of the Baltimore County Police’s Franklin Precinct, said.

The device, which did not detonate, had a black powder inside of it, Doarnberger said. It was found in the driveway of a home on the 200 block of Cockeys Mill Road in Reisterstown and taken by the police’s hazardous devices team.

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It is not known why the device was placed in that particular driveway, Doarnberger said.

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