Report: Bartow Man Finds Explosive Device in Closet

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called to a home in eastern Bartow County to detonate what appeared to be an explosive device found inside a closet.

According to an incident report from the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy was dispatched to a home at 20 Deer Run Drive in White. A man told authorities he located a bag of unidentified pellets and a note addressed to an unidentified person telling them how to put the pellets into his food.

The man also said he’d been sick on multiple occasions over the past four months and when he smelled the pellets, he began to feel the same symptoms he previously had, the report states.

The complainant told the deputy he found a homemade explosive device in the closet and a note describing how to detonate the device.

“The bomb was made out of a metal tubing that appeared to be a used alcoholic beverage container filled with black powder,” the responding deputy wrote in the incident report. “It also had wiring running from the inside to the exterior.”

Bartow sheriff’s authorities called the GBI to the scene to detonate the device, which was determined to be a “valid bomb, with an active charge.”

Deputies encouraged the complainant to go to Cartersville Medical Center to have his blood drawn to determine if the pellets matched what was in his system that was the source of his illness.