{"id":45186,"date":"2026-04-08T23:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45186"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:17:16","slug":"homemade-bomb-containing-screws-discovered-during-sherwood-park-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45186","title":{"rendered":"Homemade bomb containing screws discovered during Sherwood Park arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-socialshare=\"true\">\n<div id=\"article-fontSizer\" class=\"c-fontSizer\">\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--decrease c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Decrease Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Decrease text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=03zxzk4qx#font-decrease\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--increase c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Increase Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Increase text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=03zxzk4qx#font-increase\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The bomb squad was called in after Strathcona County RCMP pulled over a car in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sherwood-park\">Sherwood Park<\/a> with a mismatching plate, only to find weapons and an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/improvised-explosive-device\">improvised explosive device<\/a> inside.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The discovery happened Tuesday afternoon, around 1:30 p.m. Mounties were patrolling in Sherwood Park, checking licence plates in a parking lot off Pembina Road and Broadmoor Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Police ran the plate of a Buick Verano and determined it was not only a match to the car, but was also not to be put on a registered motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A traffic stop was initiated, during which police spotted bear mace inside the Buick, whose driver was allegedly attempting to conceal down the side of the driver\u2019s seat what was later determined to be a knife.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RCMP arrested the driver and began a more through search of the car. They came across drug paraphernalia and then, a briefcase \u2014 which had been turned into an improvised explosive device (IED)<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Inside the foam-insulated briefcase were hundreds of screws and the wiring to make it explode.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable c-figure--contained c-figure--containedPortrait\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tA briefcast improvised explosive device containing screws, found in a car during a traffic stop in Sherwood Park, Alta. on April 7, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAlberta RCMP\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Crime<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mounties said the immediate area, which included a gas station, was evacuated and blocked off while the RCMP explosives disposal unit (EDU) was called in to render the device safe.<\/p>\n<p>Following testing of the IED, RCMP said it was determined the contents of the device were energetic but the battery component was not connected.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Timothy Walker, 36, of Strathcona County, was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Possession of a weapon contrary to an Order (x3)<br \/>\u2022 Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose (x2)<br \/>\u2022 Possession of an explosive<br \/>\u2022 Fail to comply with a drug demand<br \/>\u2022 Impaired operation of a motor vehicle<br \/>\u2022 Possession for the purpose of trafficking<br \/>\u2022 Resisting a peace officer<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walker remains in custody and will next appeal in court on April 22.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11770423\/sherwood-park-improvised-explosive-device\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descrease article font size Increase article font size The bomb squad was called in after Strathcona County RCMP pulled over a car in Sherwood Park with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}