CHICAGO (CBS) — An apartment building in the Homan Square neighborhood was evacuated early Thursday, after an Airbnb host found suspicious items in the room he rents out.
Mike Duckworth called police around 1:15 a.m. after finding what appeared to be a pipe bomb in an apartment in the 3500 block of West Flournoy Street.
Duckworth took pictures of what he found: old wires, soldering equipment, and a cardboard tube on a bed in the apartment. He said the tenant also had set up a camera in the bedroom.
“Right when I opened the door, there was a fully functional camera; one of those USB – maybe it links to a cell phone, or something – pointed right at the door, and just everything on the bed was just laid out. Copper wire, soldering gun, kind of a heat lamp, and what looked like a fully made pipe bomb,” he said.
Police evacuated the building, and the Bomb and Arson Unit checked out the device. Detectives determined the material was not a bomb, and police allowed tenants of the building to return to their apartments.
Duckworth said the guest who was renting the room was from Hanover Park, and has not returned since Wednesday night.
“This individual checked in tonight, and just his behavior upon checking was kind of strange. He was kind of really asking a lot of questions about the locks; asking about the security, the privacy,” he said.
The landlord said he would reach out to Airbnb about his guest.
from CBS Chicago http://ift.tt/2ktT68J
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