{"id":212287,"date":"2026-11-13T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=212287"},"modified":"2026-11-13T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:00:41","slug":"bomb-squad-called-to-e-central-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/11\/13\/bomb-squad-called-to-e-central-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad called to E. Central Ave."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lima Bomb Squad was requested to come to an E. Central Ave. residence in Van Wert for a suspicious item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department was dispatched to the 500 block of E. Central at approximately 3:30 p.m. Friday for a welfare check. According to Chief Doug Weigle, officers located a box with wires and lights. The tenant claimed it was a fake bomb, but officers backed out and contacted the Lima Bomb Squad. Nearby houses were evacuated as a precaution. The Van Wert Police Department is asking people to stay away from the area at this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Weigle said the tenant, a man, is in custody for a mental health evaluation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff The Lima Bomb Squad was requested to come to an E. Central Ave. residence in Van Wert for a suspicious item. The Van Wert Police Department was dispatched to the 500 block of E. Central at approximately 3:30 p.m. Friday for a welfare check. According to Chief Doug Weigle, officers located a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-20 19:03:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212288,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212287\/revisions\/212288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}