A pipe bomb was found and safely dismantled at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Auburn Tuesday, the latest in what authorities are probing as a possible string of eco-terror-related incidents in communities east of Sacramento. A different type of homemade explosive device was found Sunday outside the Placer County Courthouse in Auburn and also dismantled by the county sheriff’s bomb squad robot. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating all five recent incidents, two of which have been claimed as the work of the Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy environmental extremist group. “We’re certainly not discounting that they all could be related, but we haven’t made that leap,” said FBI spokeswoman Karen Ernst. “No one has claimed responsibility for these (latest two) incidents.” Full Story
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