SPOKANE, Wash. — A on Thursday had explosives “purposefully built” to be “anti-personnel” and containing “very combustible” materials, according to court documents filed on Friday.
Stevens County sheriff’s deputies and Airway Heights police officers , while they were executing an unrelated search warrant for a fraud case at 54-year-old Angela Andreas-Miller’s apartment.
Deputies said they first saw an about 2-foot-long pipe-shaped object with fuses sticking out of the top. One of the Airway Heights officers said he recognized the device as likely being an explosive, so police took a picture, detained Andreas-Miller and left as a safety precaution.
Police evacuated the building while waiting for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office explosives unit to safely grab the expected explosive.
When explosives unit team members secured the device, court documents say they used x-ray to determine it had at least three screws inside, suggesting it was specifically meant to cause harm to people.
Seven more identical explosives were found inside Andreas-Miller’s car in the apartment parking lot, according to the court documents.
After being detained, Andreas-Miller agreed to speak with investigators. She told them she wasn’t aware of the explosives and suggested that a man who lived at her apartment until recently may have been responsible for it court documents said.
Further investigation into one of the explosives found it contained a dangerous mix of very combustible materials including. Police also found a note with what appeared to be instructions to make explosives allegedly written in Andreas-Miller’s handwriting.
A Spokane County District Court judge agreed to hold her in jail on a $500,000 bond on Friday.
