[Vision2020] Bomb found under Idaho lawyer's SUV

[Ken]

I first heard about this story on the national portion of National Public 
Radio news this morning.

"The convoluted murder-for-hire case involving a North Idaho lawyer just got a 
lot more complicated.

On Tuesday, a bomb was found beneath a car registered to Edgar J. Steele, who 
is in the Kootenai County Jail on murder-for-hire charges.

The bomb was discovered when a woman brought the vehicle - registered to 
Steele - to a Coeur d'Alene oil change shop. Employees found the bomb, moved 
the vehicle and called police, said Lt. Jay Heintz with Coeur d'Alene 
police."

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/06/16/1233174/bomb-found-under-car-linked-to.html 

""Two vehicles were towed from the scene, pending processing for possible 
evidence," Heintz said. The other vehicle also could have evidence of the 
bomb, Heintz said. No other device was found.

The device police found looked like a pipe bomb, witnesses told the Spokane 
Spokesman-Review newspaper.

Employees described the customer as a women in her 50s. The bomb was a 1-foot 
piece of galvanized pipe with cap screws and two fuses attached to the 
exhaust system, the newspaper reported.

U.S. 95 near the shop was shut down for hours as the bomb was removed and 
rendered safe, Heintz said.

Later Tuesday, during his first court appearance, Steele pleaded not guilty to 
the murder-for-hire charges, according to the Spokesman-Review. The judge 
declined to release Steele and barred him from contacting his wife or 
mother-in-law, said Assistant U.S. Attorney for Idaho Traci Whelan.

The judge also appointed federal public defenders to represent Steele."

More of this story can be found at the URL above.


Ken