GLENPOOL, Okla. — Glenpool police said investigators from the Tulsa office of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) found no explosives in a small device thought to be a possible pipe bomb at a home in Glenpool on Aug. 26.
The device was found in the neighborhood north of 141st Street between Elwood and Hickory Street inside the home, but the person who reported it had moved it to the back of their SUV in the driveway.
Police evacuated nine homes in the area as a precaution based on the size of the device if it were to detonate.
ATF crews moved the device, said to be a small cylindrical tube with duct tape, into a box where an X-ray was conducted, but no explosives were found.
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Glenpool police chief Jeremy Plane said the ATF is taking over the scene and is attempting to contact the device's owner, a man who no longer lives at the home.
Trenton Rubey and his stepson were at one of the houses evacuated. Rubey said he knows the family living at the home where the device was found, but that a man recently moved out.
"I've never met him but I have met the girls that live there and they're super sweet," Rubey said. I'm glad that they weren't home and nothing bad happened to them because that would've just been devastating."
Crews also swept the home for any other items of concern, but cleared the area for neighbors to return to their homes after a little over three hours.
Rubey told 2 News he hopes investigators find answers that keep the neighborhood safe.
"(So that) everybody can go back to normal after this, you know? That it's not something that just hangs around, that it's something that we can get through as a community and just keep moving forward," he said.
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