By Matt Kawahara
mkawahara@sacbee.com
Several water-bottle explosives were discovered outside a north Sacramento hotel Monday night, prompting the Sacramento Police Department's EOD team to respond and render one of the explosives safe.
Officers were called to the hotel in the 300 block of Bercut Drive shortly before 10:30 p.m., after security personnel reported the devices, said police department spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong.
Responding officers found one device had exploded near a person in an outer stairwell, Leong said. Two other devices were found in the parking lot with their caps already opened by a passerby, thereby disarmed, he said.
A fourth device was located under a truck in the parking lot. A police bomb squad unit responded and rendered the device safe around 11:30 p.m., by shooting it with a pellet, Leong said.
No injuries were reported, Leong said. Because the devices - "chemical agent bombs" meant to explode with pressure or the opening of the caps - do not have a large blast radius, the hotel was not evacuated, he said.
No arrests had been made as of 11:30 p.m.
Call The Bee's Matt Kawahara, (916) 321-1015.
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