Police Call Bomb Squad After Device Found in Vehicle

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Prince William County police had to bring in a bomb squad Wednesday from the Virginia State Police to handle an explosive device left in a vehicle on a street near Dumfries.

The police then arrested a teenager in the Dumfries area after he allegedly placed the device in the vehicle. Daniel David Mee (in photo), 19, of no fixed address, was charged with possession of an explosive device, according to a Prince William police report.

At 3:02 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to the 4000 block of Presidential Hill Loop to investigate the device, the police report said.

A caller reported to police that there was a suspicious device under the driver’s seat of a vehicle belonging to Mee. Personnel from the Prince William Fire Marshal’s Office and members of the state police force’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team responded to assist in the investigation, the police report said.

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Mee had been stopped by Dumfries town police earlier in the day and arrested on an unrelated manner, the report said. At the time of that arrest, the vehicle was turned over to the caller, who discovered the device.

Mee is being held without bond at the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center, and his next date in court is on March 26.