Chelan County Sheriff(CCSD) - Sheriff Harum reports on September 13, 2008 at 1445 hours, Randolph Rantz advised Rivercom Dispatch Center he found drug paraphernalia near Beehive Reservoir.  Rantz collected the paraphernalia and drove the item to the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies met with Rantz.  Rantz produce a plastic grocery sack with the item.  Deputies looked into the bag recognized the item as a pipe bomb.  Deputies immediately set-up a perimeter and restricted access.

The device was a 6-8” steel pipe with caps on both ends.  Wires were coming out of both ends, too.  Attached to the steel pipe was a small, green propane bottle taped to an aerosol can of automotive starting fluid.  The device was wrapped in a bundle of electrical wire.

Deputies advised the Army EOD team in Yakima, WA.  EOD responded and X-rayed the device on scene.  EOD verified a blasting cap inside the device and the device appeared functional.

EOD collected the device and transported the pipe bomb to the Sheriff’s Office shooting range, south of Malaga.  The EOD utilized C4 to destroy the pipe bomb at 2118 hours.

The investigation continues into who constructed the device.  The Sheriff’s Office asks, if anyone has information on who built or left the pipe bomb at Beehive Reservoir, to call Lt. Jerry Moore at 509-667-6840.