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Man driving dump truck rams gate at FBI office

By The Columbian
Published: July 26, 2016, 9:41pm

Pittsburgh – A dump truck driver who said he had a bomb deliberately smashed his truck through a security gate of the FBI’s offices on Tuesday, but no bomb was found and there appeared to be no connection to terrorism, authorities said.

The driver, Thomas Richard Ross, of New Waterford, Ohio, was injured in the crash, but nobody else was hurt, they said.

The truck was moving erratically and ran eight or nine red lights before a Pittsburgh police officer pulled it over late Tuesday morning near the FBI building on the city’s South Side, authorities said. The driver initially refused to surrender and was “acting erratically, claiming to have a bomb,” and although he later acted as though he was going to surrender, he instead floored the gas pedal and rammed the gate, the Pittsburgh public safety department said.

The truck was disabled by security barriers meant to prevent vehicles from driving into the fenced-in office complex. The driver was tackled moments later, Heeb said.

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