A 26-year-old Toronto man faces a raft of charges after a police bomb squad was called to remove an explosive device from a home in Scarborough’s Woburn area on Monday night.
Police executed a search warrant on a home on Scarborough Golf Club Road, near Lawrence Avenue East at 7:20 p.m. and an explosive device was found in a children’s toys box inside the home’s garage.
Police evacuated several homes in the neighbourhood and the bomb squad was called in. Police at 43 Division described the device as a pipe bomb to CTV News Toronto.
Investigators said it was taken to an undisclosed location and “detonated safely.”
All evacuated residents were allowed back to their homes by 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Officers searched the remainder of the property and located a rifle and a handgun, along with several hundred rounds of ammunition, a quantity of drugs and currency.
A suspect identified as Robert Rochon was arrested and charged with 15 offences, including possession of an explosive substance to endanger life, two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon obtained by crime, cocaine possession, oxycodone possession and two counts of careless storage of a firearm.
He appeared in court at Old City Hall on Tuesday morning.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-3300, or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477 (TIPS).
