Video: Suspected Pontotoc Pipe Bomb Drawing Federal Attention

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PONTOTOC COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — The ATF, FBI, and Secret Service are trying to determine if a pipe wrapped in tape was a pipe bomb. Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home near Sherman last night when the suspicious looking device was found near a garbage can and about a hundred yards from a house. The Tupelo bomb squad blew up the pipe. Tonight, the fragments are at an ATF lab for analysis.

Sheriff Leo Mask says the pipe had been painted and had President Obama’s name on it. The residents who live where the pipe was found have received notes in the past about their support of the President.