HEMPSTEAD P.D./ATF LOOKING FOR BOMB SUSPECT
Police in Hempstead are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to find the person who constructed a homemade bomb found on the side of a neighborhood street.
Police said the device was found near a ditch on 1st Street by a city employee back in February.
Hempstead Police say the employee, who was looking for a water leak, didn't realize what it was he found, so he took the device back to the town's municipal barn.
The next day a co-worker saw the device and immediately called police, who in turn called in agents with the ATF. Officials with the ATF said the device was sent to their lab for forensic testing.
Hempstead Mayor Michael Wolfe Sr. said no other devices have been found and the town has received no indication there are any problems brewing.
City Prosecutor Warren Diepraam said his concern is that whoever made this device is possibly trying to make more.
Anyone with information about the device, is are asked to call Hempstead Police or the ATF’s Houston office.