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A pipe bomb explosion at the damage,he added.The wiring box had
Maplewood Police Station, 1380 Frost been repaired by Monday morning.
Ave., early Sunday morning damaged Some shrapnel from the pipe and box
part of the building's electrical wiring flew 150 to 200 feet away,onto Ide Street
system and chipped the corner off a and the building's lawn. The shrapnel
cement block retaining wall,but injured slightly damaged the body of a parked
no one. police vehicle, as well as the private
The bomb, placed at the southeast motorcycle owned by a police officer.
corner of the building near the police The police had no prior notice before the
department's garage doors,went off at bomb exploded,according to Hagen.The
12:15 a.m.It had been wedged behind a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
metal tube and four-inch box containing Firearms,a federal agency,is assisting
electrical wiring,which it blew apart. the department in its investigation.They
The wiring was not connected to any have no leads,suspects or motives,Hagen
essential or sensitive police equipment, said.
according to Lt.Dennis S.Cusick. The Pipe bombs themselves are not corn-
station was never cut off from power,said plicated devices.A section of pipe,along
Deputy Chief Tom Hagen.The building, with gunpowder,a cap and some sort of
which also contains Maplewood city of- wick are all that is necessary to construct
fices, did not suffer any structural one,according to Cusick.