Cops arrest 5 teens in mailbox blasts

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Five teenagers have been arrested after homemade bombs were thrown at a house and blown up in mailboxes, police said Thursday.
Police in this southwest Ohio city said they were called just before midnight Wednesday with a report of an explosion at the rear of a house and found two explosive devices. There was no major damage, police said.
Police soon got another report of an explosion, and found that two more homemade explosives had been detonated in mailboxes.
Police said they stopped a car and found five juveniles with components for making explosives. The youths were charged with delinquency counts of possessing a dangerous ordnance, police said.
Police Lt. Don Owens said the explosives were made in plastic bottles with household chemicals and tin foil. He said the volatile mix is dangerous not only to targets but to makers, "because they don't know when they will go off."