Washington: Tennis ball rigged with fuse leads bomb squad to man’s truck

A driver found a tennis ball rigged with a fuse in his truck, prompting a bomb squad response in Washington, troopers said. The man was driving to get an estimate for a shattered window on June 29, Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson said in a tweet.

At about 6:30 p.m., he saw a “tennis ball with a fuse” in his vehicle while on the ramp from Interstate 405 to 112th Avenue in Bellevue, Johnson said. He called 911 and a bomb squad went to his truck, Johnson said. They determined the makeshift tennis ball was an improvised explosive device — a homemade bomb.