FARMINGTON — Police say a resident on the Bailey Hill Road thought she heard gunshots, perhaps aimed at her cows, Monday night when an explosive device landed in a nearby pasture.
The woman was outside at 9:05 p.m. when she saw a vehicle in the road and heard two males talking before the device, which exploded in a pasture just before the Bailey Farm, Farmington Police Chief Jack Peck said.
The woman hopped on her ATV to confront them but the car took off toward town, he said.
She followed them with her ATV but when they got to the crest of the hill, she saw them throw another object from the car, he said. She believed she saw a wick and fire coming from it, he said. Thinking it was an explosive device, she made a U-turn and returned to her home to call police.
When Deputy Chief Shane Cote and Officer Darin Gilbert reached the top of the hill, they could see the unexploded device in the road, Peck said.
The officers closed the road and called the Maine State Police Bomb Squad, who in turn turned the investigation over to Edward Hastings from the State Fire Marshal’s Office, he said.
The materials are being analyzed by the Portland office of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to a state police spokesman.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact police at 778-6311.
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