Bomb discovery leads to arrest

PARK CITY — Summit County deputies arrested a Salt Lake man after an explosive device was found Monday.

They were summoned to an area southeast of Park City after a mechanic reported seeing something that looked like a pipe bomb in a co-worker's tool box, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office.

The Salt Lake City Police Bomb Squad was called, and the device was detonated. The 26-year-old man, who claimed the device was his, was arrested for investigation of manufacturing and possessing illegal explosives, said Summit County sheriff's spokesman Capt. Joe Offret.

There is no evidence to suggest the device was intended to be used as a weapon, a sheriff's office press release stated. The man told officers he made the device to control ground squirrels.