Urbana man arrested after alleged pipe bomb found in backpack in truck
URBANA — An Urbana man who allegedly possessed a pipe bomb in a backpack seized from a truck is in police custody.Champaign County sheriff's Lt. Cu...
URBANA — An Urbana man who allegedly possessed a pipe bomb in a backpack seized from a truck is in police custody.Champaign County sheriff's Lt. Curt Apperson said William D. Meek, 45, whose last known address was on Gurth Drive, was arrested Wednesday after authorities confirmed that an object they found inside a backpack a day earlier appeared to be an explosive device.Apperson said that on Saturday, deputies on patrol in east Urbana saw Meek in the Ivanhoe Estates Trailer Park and knew he was wanted on warrants, having failed to appear in court when he was supposed to in two methamphetamine possession cases.