STAFFORD, Va. — A manhunt ended today with a suspect lobbing pipe bombs at police officers near the Canadian border.

Police in Montana captured 25-year-old Laurence Stewart, II, just before 2 p.m. Thursday.


The alert, which joins the ranks of Amber and Silver alters when children or senior citizens go missing, is a call to action to find 25-year-old Laurence Stewart who is charged in the bombings of three houses.

The intended targets of the explosions were two Stafford County Sheriff’s law enforcement officers and Stewart’s 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, said investigators.


NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Sheriff Charles E. Jett today is expected to address two pipe bombings that occurred in Stafford County early Tuesday morning.

A press conference that has been called for 3 p.m. where his department is expected to announce the name or names of those suspected in the bombings and the charges they face.


A woman inside of her home in the 3100 block of Normandy Avenue in Fredericksburg called 911 at 4 a.m. when she heard an explosion and the rooms inside her house began to fill with smoke. She made it safely outside her home with her dog and was not injured, said Fredericksburg police spokeswoman Natia Bledsoe.

The single-story home was damage, and police that a pipe bomb had been thrown or placed inside the home. Bomb-sniffing dogs went searched the house but found no other bombs.


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