Newport Police Remove Suspected Bomb From Home

NEWPORT, RI — A well-being check at a Newport home ended up being anything but routine , when police said they discovered what appeared to be a bomb inside the home.

Just after 7:30 p.m., Thursday, police were called to a home on Kay Street for a report of a man who was threatening to harm himself. When officers arrived, they tried to contact Ryan Chaves, 26, but he ran away, police told WPRI 12.

Officers then spoke to a woman who said there was a device in the basement that looked like a pipe bomb, police told NBC 10. The state bomb squad and Middletown police were called to help and found a gun powder-type residue inside the device, police said. Police ran the device through an x-ray and determined there were no detonation parts. It was removed from the home.

Police said they later found Chaves and charged him with domestic disorderly conduct and materials convertible to a bomb.