A car bomb that injured an Ohio lawyer and his children Tuesday was the second incident involving a bomb in southern Michigan in 3 days.
While ATF agents investigate the car bombing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating a bomb described as an improvised explosive device (IED) found in the ladies bathroom of Adi Coney Island, a Detroit, Michigan restaurant near Interstate 75.
The car bombing occurred on East Elm Ave near I 75 in Monroe, which is about 25 miles south of Detroit.
The IED was found about 3 pm Saturday in the ladies room by restaurant employee Barbara Avdolli.
"I went in the ladies room and I was making sure that there was tissue paper on the roll and looked down beside the toilet, saw a black bottle and picked it up," Avdolli said. "I started looking at it as I carried it out. I was gonna throw it in the dumpster and my boss lady seen the wires on and told me it was a bomb."
Police were called immediately to the scene.
It was described as having a glass bottle containing gasoline inside of a plastic shell.
"It looked like a bicycle water bottle, that goes on a ten-speed," said Heather Cyr, another Coney Island employee. "When she flipped it over, I saw the wires and the numbers on it and was like, this is no water bottle."
"This was indeed an improvised explosive device," advised Homeland Security Inspector Don Johnson.
The device was detonated by the bomb squad at a nearby car wash.
DHS is reviewing surveillance footage to identify suspect(s).
Coincidentally, a motion was filed in Detroit by Underwear Bomber Umar Abdulmutallab's attorney Tuesday, the day of the car bombing, seeking to suppress footage of the detonation of a model of the bomb he smuggled onto the airplane in 2009. Attorney Anthony Chambers says a bomb on an aircraft and one demonstrated in a field are not similar.
The Underwear Bomber was also in court on September 14th at which time he was disruptive and during several outbursts claimed, "Osama is alive," "Jihad" and "I'm being forced to wear prison clothes."
He also addressed the media, who were in the hearing, saying, "Don't say Osama is dead."
Osama is dead.
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