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TexasTowelie

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Sat Nov 3, 2018, 06:40 AM Nov 2018

Angry man with "Trump is Satan" sign: Police search home for explosives

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, MI - Police searched a home for explosives after a man with a "Trump is Satan" sign allegedly said that Republican headquarters in Northern Michigan ought to be bombed.

Police have talked to the man.

Grand Traverse County sheriff's detectives, an explosive-detection K9 team, an interdiction team and state police bomb squad used a search warrant Thursday, Nov. 1, at the East Bay Township home related to the alleged threats. Police found no evidence of explosives or bomb-making materials.

Police had also searched the Republican Party headquarters in Garfield Township but found nothing.

Staff told police that an angry man, holding the "Trump is Satan" sign, walked into the Republican headquarters on Wednesday and said that "'someone should bomb this place' or 'I should bomb this place,'" police said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/11/angry_man_with_trump_is_satan.html

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