11/21/2009 10:10:00 PM
Prescott Valley police arrests man for explosive device
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Prescott Valley police late Thursday night arrested the owner of a vehicle that contained what officers initially thought was an improvised explosive device.
Officers booked Chino Valley resident Andrew Goodall, 22, into Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde on suspicion of one count of felony misconduct involving weapons after he turned himself into police.
The incident started at about 10 p.m. Thursday at the Safeway grocery store parking lot, 7720 E. Highway 69, when officers stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation.
Police later cited the driver of the vehicle, 20-year-old Justin Stafford of PV, for suspicion of underage drinking.
While conducting a search of the car, officers say they found out it wasn't Stafford's vehicle and that a shoebox in the back seat allegedly contained suspicious contents.
Fearing the shoebox might have an explosive in it, officers established a perimeter around the vehicle and momentarily evacuated Safeway and its surrounding businesses.
Department of Public Safety's Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit later responded to the scene and rendered the device safe.
When police and detectives found out the vehicle belonged to Goodall, they contacted him and found out he made the device.
Officers say Goodall told them he did not plan to use the device for any criminal activity. Rather, they say he was trying to develop a new type of explosive similar to dynamite.
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Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
Article comment by:
KC
"Everybody's Hometown" What a joke!
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
Article comment by:
Concerned Citizen
I'm sorry, but how can you call this a non-story? Yes we do need to hear about the PHS student arrest for drugs, but he stated he was "trying to develop a new type of explosive similar to dynamite." his words!!! The questions is why, and why is he carrying it around in his car? So why would this be a non story? Do we want people driving around with made up explosive device's?
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
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Here's a Real Story!
This is a non-story. Typical of this newspaper. If you wanted to report a story why not run the one about the PHS student getting arrested for drugs on the campus last Friday?
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
Article comment by:
FORMER EOD
Scotty ,No I don't!!! What a stupid question?
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
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No name provided
where is the crime here.
what a wast of time and money.
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
Article comment by:
Scotty
So EOD, do you expect "chemical analysis" to be performed by uniformed patrol officers on the hood of their car in the grocery store parking lot?
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
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FORMER EOD
It might not even be an explosive device!!! The guy said he was trying to reinvent dynamite, that makes me laugh. Most dynamite is made of nitro glycerin and sawdust. Not much to reinvent. Without chemical analysis, this could be all in the cops mind.
Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
Article comment by:
trippetta
Who cares who was driving! The real question should be what the heck was he planning on doing with an "explosive device?"
Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
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No name provided
He wasn't driving around, the other guy was driving his car and got pulled over.
Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
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???
And he is driving around in his car with it? Lied about it? This story makes no sense to me, anyone else?
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