Police React To TCA Decisions

Colorado Springs Police wondering why The Classical Academy waited so long to call them about three incendiary devices called at the school. Springs Police Bomb Tech Dan Carter is the man who helped defuse the devices. He told me, “One device was roughly the size of a backpack, the other two were roughly smaller than a football.” Carter believes all had the potential to seriously hurt or kill someone.

T.C.A. acknowledges that the first device was found March 23rd, a day before the school’s Spring Break. It was inside the school and moved somewhere in the school. It sat in the school and was apparently leaking propane. The other two devices were found Monday in the school. All of the devices were moved from where they were discovered by The Classical Academy staff. On Thursday, staff moved the devices again to outside of the school.

I asked Bomb Tech, Dan Carter his reaction to the storage and moving the three devices. He told me, “It doesn’t make any sense. I understand they thought they determined those items were safe, but I don’t know where they got the training and experience to do that.”

Carter has been a Bomb Tech for five years, a member of the bomb squad for nine years and also attended a special school for bomb techs in Huntsville Alabama that trains techs from all over the United States.