{"id":239268,"date":"2026-01-18T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239268\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:52:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-a-dozen-pipe-bombs-found-across-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239268\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after a dozen pipe bombs found across Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man accused of making pipe bombs has been arrested after almost a dozen explosives were found strewn along footpaths in the Australian capital of Canberra.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old has been accused of stealing and purchasing items needed to create the bombs from a store in Belconnen, in the city’s northwest.<\/p>\n

Police searched his house in the same suburb on Saturday where they allegedly found items used to assemble pipe bombs.<\/p>\n

The suspect was arrested at a unit at Gungahlin, in the city’s north, late last night and will appear in ACT Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with unauthorised manufacture of a prohibited dangerous substance, possessing a prohibited weapon, and theft.<\/p>\n

Investigations were ongoing and further charges were expected, however police do not believe the incident was terrorism related.<\/p>\n

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A pipe bomb found laying on concrete in Canberra’s northwest. (Source: ACT Police) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

The silver, tube-shaped objects were first found by members of the public on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, at least 11 pipe bombs had been found along a one-kilometre stretch of footpath near Lake Ginninderra, a popular parkland area for runners and dog walkers.<\/p>\n

Some of the explosives appeared to have gone off before being found, while others were discovered intact.<\/p>\n

Police do not believe anyone was hurt when the explosives detonated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of making pipe bombs has been arrested after almost a dozen explosives were found strewn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-239268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}