Prosecutor’s office awaits facts on 2 teens in pipe-bomb case

STAFF REPORT

SALEM — The Columbiana County Prosecutor’s office is still awaiting information from police to determine what charges will be brought against two boys accused of setting off a pipe bomb.

Denise Weingart, an assistant prosecutor assigned to county juvenile court, said this week she has not received information from police about the boys.

She added that when she does, she’ll review the case and take appropriate action.

The pipe bomb, set off in a mailbox, flew out and struck a house on Sunset Drive about 1:29 a.m. July 27.

It traveled about 50 yards before striking the house, said Police Chief Robert Floor.

It went through the wall of the house, went across a room and struck an inside wall.

One of two women who lived in the house then tossed the pipe bomb’s remains outside.

No one was injured.

Neither the 15-year-old Salem boy nor the 13-year-old Lisbon boy has a record, Floor said.

Police searched the home of the Salem boy and found M-80 firecrackers and other fireworks, and gunpowder removed from shotgun shells.