posted by Joe Polk at 4:04 PM /
Several homes in Mt. Lebanon were evacuated for a short time Monday evening after police stopped a motorist who had several homemade bombs in his car. No one was harmed, and the Allegheny County Bomb Squad removed the devices without incident, Mt. Lebanon police Lt. Mark Rayburg said.
"There is no indication that this incident is terrorist-related," he said. The motorist, a Pittsburgh man who was being questioned last night, will be charged with possession of prohibited offensive weapons and reckless endangerment, Rayburg said.
Link: www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_519883.html
Link 2: www.postgazette.com/pg/07212/805726-100.stm
Link 3: www.kdka.com/local/local_story_212165425.html
Link 4: www.postgazette.com/pg/07213/806005-100.stm
"There is no indication that this incident is terrorist-related," he said. The motorist, a Pittsburgh man who was being questioned last night, will be charged with possession of prohibited offensive weapons and reckless endangerment, Rayburg said.
Link: www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_519883.html
Link 2: www.postgazette.com/pg/07212/805726-100.stm
Link 3: www.kdka.com/local/local_story_212165425.html
Link 4: www.postgazette.com/pg/07213/806005-100.stm
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17 Comments:
Great job by the Mt Lebanon officer that picked up on this one!
Our tax dollars at work!
Ok. I just have to ask. Why does a post like this have to be anonymous?
Linda Wilson Fuoco
Why does a post need to be anonymous? Personally, I don't want my name out on the Internet at all, especially on blogs. Someone can immediately find my house information(Allegheny County website) and probably get my phone number (411.com) and posssibly where I work. Just not worth it.
Maybe in the future our names will be throughout the Internet. But right now, I'm happy with being anonymous.
Linda, in about 30 seconds, I found where you live and what your husband does for a living.
Ditto to ANON 9:00 – MTL Public Safety (MTLPD and MTLFD) deserve our deep appreciation for their service. If you call they will be there.
On the other subject here, please layoff the anonymous posters. Folks should be free to say something nice about MTL without rebuke. Many folks just genuinely care about the Community and wish to avoid attention or garner brownie points.
In truth, putting "anonymous" on your blog comment doesn't protect your identity -- if that's what you want -- as much as you think.
I'm no computer whiz, but your comment, Mike, makes me believe that somehow or someone can be found via their IP address. And, since blogger.com is the company hosting this and thousands of other sites on their servers my guess is only they would be able to track a poster down. And I can't imagine getting them to go to that much trouble. Am I wrong?
I don't want to drag this thread off into non-Lebo-related topics, but there is more to the Web and more to the Internet and more to the blogosphere than IP addresses. And if you really want to maintain your anonymity online, you need to do more than simply check "anonymous" when you post a comment on a blog.
To be clear, however, I do not track down the identities of people who post here and have no plans to do so.
Posting as "annonymous" is so liberating. It allows one the freedom to identify churches with cracked sidewalks.
What have the police done about drugs in the high school?
What have they been allowed to do?
Re question from anon 11:06 a.m....what are the police doing about drugs in the schools...
I know that at the high school police officers make periodic inspections of the lockers using the K9/drug detection dogs.
I hear the dogs have never found any drugs, though the dogs have alerted on lockers which are then opened and inspected.
Linda Wilson Fuoco
Where are the police you ask?? Well they are on Hazel Drive taking down Lost Cat signs on telephone polls!
Re: drugs at the high school....does anyone know if the dogs are allowed to search the parking lot? Also, when there is a lock down, if kids have drugs on their person, the dogs don't pick that up, they usually only pick up scents of drugs in the areas to which they have access.
Have you ever asked why we have campus managers at the high school when a grant was available to hire a Mt. Lebanon police officer? The officer would work for the schools nine months and the municipality three months, yet the board turned down the offer of a policeman in the schools and Keystone Oaks hired him. Our Police Chief got the grant and Keystone Oaks used it.
The first time we used dogs, Linda, we announced an April Sniff one month ahead of time.
Board policy allows only student cars in the parking lot to be searched.
How does the K-9 know what car is student or employee?
Why didn't the Board vote employees into the Drug Policy in the parking lot?
Linda W.
Is that a fact that the dogs never found anything or just what "the lebo bubble" believes to be true?
I distinctly remember a board member saying several years ago when the police officer was turned away that "there is an occasional beer party in Mt. Lebanon but we have no drug problems". Maybe we just don't know about drug busts in school because it is not made public? Maybe there is an announcement made that there will be a k-9 inspection? Do kids take things out of their locker during the inspection and carry it around sincethey are not part of the search? Is it true that employees' cars are not subject to inspection?
It would be interesting to get the facts.
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