Police destroy pressure cooker near Capitol and arrest suspect

[jaysunb]

Source: los angeles times

Los Angeles Times | May 24, 2015 | 8:47 PM


A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman says a bomb squad has safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a “suspicious” vehicle left unattended near the Capitol building and that the vehicle's owner has been arrested.

Update

U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman says a bomb squad has safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a “suspicious” vehicle left unattended near the Capitol building and that the vehicle's owner has been arrested..


She says the vehicle owner, Israel Shimeles of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested and charged with “operating after revocation” and was at Capitol Police headquarters. She earlier said that the driver had been arrested


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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-capitol-pressure-cooker-20150524-story.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. One of these days they'll find a pressure cooker

full of beef stew.

[GoneFishin]

9. I still wonder if that is the case. If they confirmed explosives were contained inside every right

wing news outlet would be plastering it in the headlines and screaming that the sky is falling.

My money is still on the contents being beef stew. But it will take 6 months for embarrassing details like that to be uncovered through a leak or a FOIA request.

[shenmue]

10. Nom nom nom

[JoeyT]

13. Given that the person was arrested for driving too many times without a license,

I'm pretty sure a crockpot full of beef stew is probably what they found this time, too.

[okaawhatever]

2. That's not good. It's good that they caught him & it didn't go off, but it isn't good that someone

tried in the first place. I imagine terrorists would love to kill Americans on Memorial Day. They probably consider it a symbolic victory as well as a military one.

[SoapBox]

3. The nuts just keep coming...

I wonder what "news" channel he watches and which AM radio channel was a favorite?

Not like they stir up whackos or anything.

[jaysunb]

4. +1 n/t

[LovingA2andMI]

5. Let's Guess....

"News" Channel: Faux News

AM Radio Channel: Anything with Rush Limpballs, Mike Levine

YouTube Subscription: Alex Jones.

Just some guesses......

[trillion]

6. Sounds like the CIA.

[A Simple Game]

7. Operating after revocation, did they even see the person driving? Sounds like

the cops screwed up on this one. Much ado about nothing on a slow news day.

[Hoppy]

8. With a name Israel Shimeles, he might be a follower of the radical Zionist, Sheldon Adelson.

Relax, its sarcasm.

[FLPanhandle]

11. I was afraid of something like this happeing before the Patriot Act expired

Some incident that will not let it expire.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. A big, fat nothingburger of an incident. n/t

[nikto]

14. Whew! Thank god it wasn't a Toaster-Oven

Those things are nasty.






Uh ... Is this incident significant?

[Brother Buzz]

15. Only if operating a vehicle on a revoked license is significant incident

Owner of pressure cooker in Washington bomb scare apologizes

Virginia man who triggered a bomb scare on Sunday near the U.S. Capitol apologized and explained the suspicious device was a pressure cooker used for his food truck business, local news reported on Monday.

Authorities on Sunday blew up the pressure cooker found in a suspicious, unattended vehicle parked near the Capitol minutes before the National Memorial Day Concert, where thousands of people were in attendance.

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A subsequent investigation found nothing hazardous, but the vehicle's owner, Israel Shimeles of the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle after his license had been revoked.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/25/us-usa-capitol-device-idUSKBN0OA08B20150525