SEQUIM — A “pressure bomb” was left on Gary Elliott’s porch on the 400 block of West Hemlock Street Sunday morning, Sequim Police Chief Robert Spinks said Monday.
The bomb was disabled and removed and caused no injuries, though it could have wrought serious harm, Spinks said.
Elliott, who’d been laying tile with his son all weekend, happened to look out his front window at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday to see a green 2-liter soda-pop bottle near his doorstep. He phoned the Sequim Police, who summoned the Washington State Patrol bomb unit.
The bomb specialists arrived at 9:58 a.m., Spinks said, and evacuated the houses within 200 yards of the Elliott residence.
Elliott and his family went to a neighbor’s home outside the 200-yard radius. All other residents of the 400 block were told to stay inside their houses.
The bottle bomb, which contained dry ice and water, failed to detonate, Spinks said. “It was rigged not to activate until somebody picked it up or kicked it over. That makes it more disconcerting,” he added.
The neighborhood was “locked down,” Spinks said, for about three hours.
