EUGENE, Ore. - Police
seized more than one "incendiary device" from the north end of the Eugene Police headquarters property Monday afternoon.
"I don't know what kind of damage they could have done," Lt. David Natt said. "This is not a hoax device. These are very serious matters."
The devices are now at the Eugene Police forensics lab for processing.
"Our hope is we get some physical evidence off it, and that physical evidence leads us to potentially somebody involved in the production and/or deployment of these devices," Natt said.
Maintenance located the devices on the north end of the Eugene Police headquarters property Monday afternoon, Natt said.
"In the course of doing their work out there, they located a couple of devices they reported to staff in the building. Our bomb unit folks who were on duty went out took custody of and they were determined to be incendiary devices," he said. "They are currently at our forensics lab for processing."
Natt declined to describe the devices or say how many devices were found.
"We kind of hang on to some of the details for the purposes of bettering the investigation," he said. "When we are in a position to release more details about style, type, make, model, that kind of stuff as it pertains to what was found, we're more than willing to do that. But we want to give our investigators the best start we can to get to the bottom of what this is all about."
Natt said the investigation started in earnest Tuesday morning.
"We're going to ask our neighbors for any footage, and we're going to review any footage that we have," Natt said.
Natt said he was unaware of any similar incident at the Country Club Road property since Eugene Police moved operations there.
"I don't have any motivation, we have no suspect information at this time, we're just taking this set of circumstances very seriously," he said. "Cases like this can be difficult. Somebody out there knows something about it, and we'd like to hear from them."
Natt said police have been in contact "with our federal partners" but that the case remains with Eugene Police at this time.