A man suspected of eluding police was found Wednesday, Dec. 3, with a device in his vehicle identified as a pipe bomb, Eugene police said.
Melvin David Bennett, 43, was booked into Lane County Jail on suspicion of unlawfully possessing a destructive device, a felony, in addition to felony eluding, as well as other misdemeanor charges.
Two Eugene police officers at 10:39 p.m. went to an apartment on the 2700 block of Willakenzie Road to arrest Bennett after an earlier traffic stop at Seventh Avenue and Lincoln Street in which a vehicle fled…