{"id":46167,"date":"2026-04-09T23:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46167"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:47:44","slug":"ied-in-sherwood-park-car-designed-to-kill-many-people-former-mountie-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46167","title":{"rendered":"IED in Sherwood Park car designed to kill many people, former Mountie says"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A briefcase bomb<\/a> found in a car being searched by police this week east of Edmonton was, in the opinion of a local security expert and former Mountie, designed to kill as many people as possible.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe destruction and death would have been really, really devastating,\u201d said Neil LeMay, who was a RCMP major crimes investigator for nearly three decades and now a consultant with Global Enterprise Security Risk Management.<\/p>\n

The improvised explosive device<\/a> (IED) was found inside a car in Sherwood Park in the middle of the night Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mounties were patrolling in Sherwood Park, checking licence plates in a parking lot off Pembina Road and Broadmoor Boulevard around 1:30 a.m., when they ran the plate of a Buick Verano.<\/p>\n

It came back as not matching the car and also was not supposed to be attached to a registered motor vehicle.<\/p>\n

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A traffic stop was initiated, during which police spotted bear spray inside the Buick. They added the driver was attempting to conceal something down the side of the driver\u2019s seat, which was later determined to be a knife.<\/p>\n

RCMP arrested the driver and began a more thorough search of the car. They say they came across drug paraphernalia and then a briefcase, which had been turned into an improvised explosive device (IED)<\/p>\n

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Inside the foam-insulated briefcase were hundreds of screws and the wiring to make it explode.<\/p>\n

From the photo released by RCMP, the foam-insulated briefcase appeared to contain hundreds of screws and the wiring to make it explode.<\/p>\n

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LeMay has seen a number of pipe bombs and homemade explosives in his career. He said the one found this week is unlike any other he\u2019s come across, because it\u2019s not in a steel container.<\/p>\n

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He explained the bomb being in a briefcase would make its concussion wave less powerful \u2014 indicating it wasn\u2019t meant to blow up a car or damage a building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis, in fact, was probably designed towards injuring and killing soft targets,\u201d LeMay said. \u201cBy that, I mean people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Upon detonation, he said this briefcase bomb would eject all the screws out as shrapnel that would fly through the air at high speed.<\/p>\n

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The former police officer believes the bomb was designed to do maximum damage to multiple people.<\/p>\n

Without having seen the bomb himself, LeMay believes it would likely have been used in a public space without security.<\/p>\n

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