Mystery Bomber Targeting East Texas

Two more “suspicious devices” were discovered in a blue post office collection box and a mailbox in East Texas yesterday afternoon.

They are just the latest in a terrifying series of homemade devices found in East Texas post office boxes over the past several months.

According to documents obtained by CBS News, at least 17 devices ranging from pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails to “hangman style” nooses, have been found in United States Postal Service collection boxes and mailboxes since March 9 of this year. U.S.Postal Inspector Amanda McMurrey said they have been finding the devices since January 1.

The investigation is ongoing, but officials say the construction of the devices indicate the incidents are connected.

“The vast majority of these incidents are linked based on the perpetrator’s method of operations,” said Tom Crowley, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Collection boxes outside the main post offices in Tyler, Marshall, Laird Hill and Longview have been targeted, as well as several other East Texas collection boxes and customer mailboxes.

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