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JOPLIN, Mo. — One of the largest ‘Shop with a Cop’ events in the area was held early Saturday morning at Walmart #59, 1501 S Rangeline in Joplin.
SENECA, Mo. — Seneca Police Chief James Altic tells KOAM’s Shannon Becker the male who fled into a wooded area is in custody.
Chief Altic tells us the family member said it was mailed from England or Europe packed in a box of china, some time around World War II. Munitions experts communicating with the police department determined through photographs it could be a World War II era 'butterfly bomb'. Bomb specialists from Fort Leonard Wood in Mid-Missouri were dispatched to Seneca, arriving late in the evening.On scene the device was inspected using x-ray. They confirmed that it was a Butterfly Bomb.