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Maplewood building bombed
A pipe bomb detonated at the calls before the bomb detonated,
Maplewood Muncipal Building, the sergeant said.
1380 Frost Ave., at 12:15 a.m. "Over the years, we've had
Sunday, blowing off portions of a countless people threaten this
retaining wall, damaging an sort of thing. We take them with
electrical box, a van and a po- a grain of salt, but this is unset-
liceman's personal motorcycle. tling,"Dreger said.
Sgt. Richard Dreger said the Portions of the bomb, Dreger
bomb, fashioned from 2-inch said, were found 250 feet from
pipe, had been placed on a re- the garage.
taining wall next to a brick wall In addition to the police sta-
on the southeast corner of the tion, the building contains mu-
police garage. nicipal offices, council chambers
A police van parked nearby and courtrooms.
was dented and an officer's per- Dreger said the Bureau of Al-
sonal motorcycle also was dam- cohol, Tobacco and Firearms is
aged,Dreger said. assisting Maplewood police in
There were no threatening the investigation.