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City seals home after bomb found
Property can’t be inhabited until authorities give OK
BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
e City of Englewood issued an emergency abatement order on July e Englewood Police Department announced the emergency abatement order, which prohibits occupancy of the home, shortly after noon July 7 on social media, and the home was fenced o and boarded up within a few hours. e police department said the emergency order was issued “in response to recent events and no additional incidents have been reported at this time.” e inspectors found a multitude of violations such as barricaded and inaccessible windows and doors, storage of combustibles in large quantities and “hoarding conditions,” no smoke detectors present, and interior and exterior accumulation of trash, per the order. e order said the site conditions pose a “serious risk / hazardous conditions which are immediately dangerous to emergency responders.”
7 for 4945 S. Delaware St., the residence where two men were arrested June 29 after one of them allegedly admitted a plan to make explosives, and where a “viable” pipe bomb was found on July 3.
Englewood Director of Communications Chris Harguth provided the Englewood Herald with a copy of the order, which lists conditions deemed hazardous within the 4945 S. Delaware St. residence.
According to the order, a site inspection was conducted July 7 to check for re code violations.
“ e City Manager has (authorized) Code Enforcement and the Fire Marshal’s O ce to take all steps necessary to abate this threat to public safety as soon as practicable under their emergency abatement authority,” the order stated.
According to the order, the property is uninhabitable until authorization is obtained from the City of Englewood.
Arapalert Will Warn Of Danger
On July 7, in the announcement that authorities are taking control of the property at 4945 S. Delaware St. after explosive materials and a bomb were found there, the Englewood Police Department said that, if needed, an alert will be sent to any residents in the immediate area through
Neighborhood Has Unsolved Incidents
The recent discoveries of explosive ingredients and a pipe bomb at 4945 S. Delaware St. in Englewood are not the neighborhood’s first scares related to explosives or suspicious devices. Three unsolved incidents in 2021 — which police have not publicly connected to the recent discoveries — were all in the same general area.
On Jan. 16, 2021, a passerby discovered a pipe bomb in the field beside Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice, which is directly across Delaware Street from the home where the recent discoveries were made. The Arapahoe County Bomb Squad determined it was a real explosive.
On Jan. 20, 2021, a woman walking her dog spotted a man leaving a suspicious device just feet from the playground at Rotolo Park at Huron Street and Radcli Avenue. The device at Rotolo Park was cylindrical and covered in black tape, but it was later determined not to be a real bomb.
The man who left the device at Rotolo Park was described as a white male with red hair and a short beard, Englewood police said at the time.
The third case, on March 26, 2021, also involved a real explosive device. It was found at Bannock Street and Union Avenue.
The 2021 cases resulted in no deaths, injuries or arrests.
ArapAlert.
ArapAlert is a system that residents can sign up for to get warnings from public safety agencies. Alerts are sent through texts, calls or emails.
Residents can sign up for ArapAlert online at ace911.colorado.gov/arapalert
