According to WSBT, police in LaPorte County (Indiana) located what they call an IED.
Police say they got the call around 4 p.m. Monday. A woman had been walking along a roadside ditch, cleaning it out, when she found something and brought it home. Her husband was concerned about what she found and called police.
Officers came to the scene and discovered it was an improvised explosive device, according to LaPorte County police. The bomb squad is now on the scene and the device is secure.
The device is something homemade that police say had components that might be a pipe bomb of some kind. No one was injured.
A containment vehicle is being brought in from Porter County. Officials say they will put the device in that and then transport it to a field where it will be detonated.