Columbus: police investigating bomb found near police car

A Columbus resident discovered a bomb near a police patrol car at an apartment complex Saturday afternoon. The device did not detonate.

Lt. Randy Robertson, local Homeland Security office chief told reporters a Haz-Mat team used a robot on-site to safely disable what he termed a potentially lethal, shrapnel-filled munition.

"It's obvious that the person who built the device put some thought into hurting somebody if the device had went off," Robertson told the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper.

"Luckily - we hope it's because their skills weren't quite what they needed to be - the device did not go off," he told reporters.