The Washington County sheriff’s office have sent off a suspected “homemade explosive device” a man found in the Illinois River, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
About 12:40 p.m., a man looking for fish in the river spotted a suspicious item near Kettle Springs Road and called the sheriff ’s off ice, spokesman Kelly Cantrell said. After deputies checked out the item, they notified the Bentonville bomb squad.
Bomb-squad officers “rendered [the device] safe” and sent it off for forensic analysis, Cantrell said.
Sheriff ’s officials declined to release additional details about the device as they continued their investigation on Saturday night.
Arkansas, Pages 19 on 04/21/2013