PORT ANGELES — Investigators found components that possibly could be used in an explosive device but no actual bomb in an apartment at 1019 W. 18th St., Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith said.
A State Patrol Explosives Unit investigated after Port Angeles police serving a search warrant at about 12:15 p.m. today found what looked like a hand grenade, Smith said.
Police evacuated neighboring tenants in the area between C and D streets and 17 and 18th streets until State Patrol investigators from Kitsap County had examined the residence.
They were allowed back into their homes at about 8 p.m.
The search was initiated after the morning arrest of the apartment’s resident, Josh Scott Curry, for investigation of first-degree burglary, Smith said.
The 32-year-old man is in custody tonight at the Clallam County jail with no bond set.
The State Patrol unit, also known as a bomb squad, used a remote-controlled vehicle with a camera and robotic arm to secure the suspicious items observed by police.
“They determined there was nothing explosive or hazardous to us in there,” Smith said, “nothing that would explode.”
However, “they found components that could possibly be used” in a bomb, Smith added.
The Port Angeles School District was notified so officials could re-route children and buses department schools in the areas, said Port Angeles Police Department Sgt. Josh Powless.
Police also contacted Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles because the approach flight path passes directly overhead of the apartment complex.
In addition to the Port Angeles police and State Patrol, law enforcement officers with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office, Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, the U.S. Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved, Smith said.
