Des Moines Bomb Squad detonates improvised explosive device found on Waveland Golf Course

A member of the Des Moines Police Department Bomb Squad detonated an improvised explosive device that was found Thursday at Waveland Golf Course.

KCCI received multiple tips early Thursday afternoon from people at the Des Moines municipal course, saying they had been told to leave the grounds. Des Moines police confirmed to KCCI that a golfer reported finding what they thought was a pipe bomb to Waveland staff just before noon, spurring the evacuation.

Sgt. Paul Parizek, spokesperson for DMPD, said responding officers “definitely recognized it to be something suspicious and potentially dangerous.”

“We secured the scene out here and then we brought in our bomb squad,” he said.

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