Payette police find explosive device and suspect thanks to footprints in snow

Footprints in the snow led to the discovery of an explosive device in Payette, said officials on Thursday.

The Payette Police Department responded to a call on Jan. 1, at roughly 6 a.m., about a suspicious person trying to light something on fire in the 600 block of North 8th Street, Chief of Police Gary Marshall said.

“Without their assistance in notifying us of the situation, who knows where we’d be or what we’d be talking about,” Marshall said.

A news release from Payette Police said officers arrived in the area and found fresh footprints in the snow. The tracks led to a train car, where police found an undetonated Improvised Explosive Device (I.E.D.).

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