Home used for manufacturing ‘adult toys’, not bombs

Home used for manufacturing ‘adult toys’, not bombs
Looked like bomb-making facility, but turns out to be legitimate business

By Cox News Service – Found at Western Star

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

CLEARCREEK TWP., WARREN COUNTY — Authorities responding Tuesday afternoon to a call about a potential pipe bomb manufacturing outfit at a home in northern Warren County soon discovered that the suspicious wiring and pipe materials on site are used not for homemade bombs, but adult sex toys.

Warren County Emergency Services Director Frank Young said a Clearcreek police officer first noticed the suspicious materials at the home in the 2200 block of East Ohio 73 when responding to a call about a possible sighting on the property of a suspect in a rash of stolen cars in the area.

“When he walked in, there was a machine shop set up in the home — pieces of pipe, pipe-ends, a lot of electrical equipment and heavy duty tool boxes,” Young said. “It looked like it could be a bomb manufacturing facility, so, he got out and the police department notified the Butler County bomb squad.”

Young said that along with the bomb squad and his HAZMAT team, FBI and ATF officials also were on the scene.

“They all took a look and everyone had the same opinion — that we had a problem, because it did look like a bomb manufacturing facility,” Young said.

He said the bomb squad then came across “this big rubber thing and figured out what it was,” he said. “That’s when everybody pulled out and left the scene.”

Young said the property owner was very sensitive to officials being there.

“It’s an official business, not illegal and he has patented rights on it,” he said.

Young said he’s had unusual calls before, “but this one goes to the head of the list.”