Homemade bomb found after man tells wife he wants to blow something up, deputies say

A call that started as a domestic dispute ended with the discovery of something unusual.

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Miami County deputies were called to a home in the 7600 block of US Route 40 Sunday evening for reports of a fight between a husband and wife, according to an incident report.

While deputies were interviewing the wife she told them that she remembered seeing something in their garage that made her “uneasy.”

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She told deputies that there was a bomb in the garage that her husband had made himself, according to an incident report narrative.

She said that she had found out about it when an ex of her husband filed for a restraining order and he became angry and made a comment about “blowing some (expletive) up” and referenced the alleged homemade explosive device.

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