BOISE -- Ustick and Cole, one of Boise's busiest areas, was shut down during rush hour Monday as police investigated a possible bomb.
Police say it all seems to trace back to Bruce Loggins, who last month led them on a chase and was arrested after police discovered pipe bombs in a stolen car.
It started shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, when bomb technicians arrived at the Flying H Ranch trailer park.
The focus of their investigation, a blue car and a brown van parked at the Flying H, both registered to Bruce Loggins.
"All of the devices, it's from my understanding, that have been found in connection with this particular suspect are being investigated for the danger they could have posed to the community," said Lynn Hightower, spokeswoman of the Boise Police Department.
Now, they may have found another one.
Police are not confirming it was a bomb, but they say it was enough of a threat to remove the device immediately.
"It's kind of a scary, scary thought," said Candace Hagan who is Loggins' ex-wife.
She says their son, 17-year-old Matthew, received permission from Loggins a few days ago to take his blue Thunderbird, which was at the police impound lot.
Matthew also had some of his belongings in his father's van, which was parked at the Flying H Ranch trailer park.
So Matthew and his mother drove there to move things from the van into the car and that's when Matthew found the suspicious device in the car's trunk.
"It was a fire extinguisher with duct tape around it, and kind of like a dog leash about so wide, blue kind of wrapped around it and arrow head with something at the end of it,wrapped up in black electrical tape with a fuse," said Hagan.
Police were called and residents in the immediate area of the car were evacuated.
Hagan's anger at Loggins grew since their lives could have been in danger.
"He told, I guess ATF, that there were more out there but he couldn't remember where they were because he was so high on drugs," said Hagan.
She's also concerned about why the device was in the car to begin with.
They had just picked it up from the police impound lot and were told the car had been searched.
"Police impound the car and you know and they search it and do their thing and they release back to us civilians and we drive around it whatever kind of bombs, pipe bombs whatever you call it, we're driving around with this in the trunk," said Hagan.
Police couldn't say if the car had been searched.
"It's possible under several different scenarios that a car could be placed into the impound lot and not be searched. You do need imminent danger or search warrant to search a vehicle so there there are several circumstances where a car can be impounded by police and not searched," said Hightower.
According to Loggins' ex-wife, police impounded the blue car last month after Loggins and another suspect led officers on a chase.
She also says Loggins never warned her or her son that they might find a device in the trunk.
Loggins was arrested in Mountain Home last month after police discovered several pipe bombs in a stolen vehicle.
Police also found a pipe bomb at an apartment at Taggert and Overland in Boise.
Loggins is facing a laundry list of charges in Ada and Canyon counties and possibly federal charges too.
He's is currently in Canyon County jail and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
