Police: Men built 650-sparkler bomb

Two men were given Bryant Police Chief Mark Kizer’s “stupid award of the week,” he said, after they were charged with creating a bomb out of sparklers that exploded and was heard around the neighborhood.

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About 11:30 p.m. Thursday night, two Bryant police officers were on a call on Whispering Oak Street when they heard a loud explosion, Kizer wrote in a Facebook post.They found two intoxicated men who had built a makeshift bomb out of 650 sparklers, he said. The explosion was heard by officers three miles away, he said. No one was injured.

One of the men resisted arrest and was shot with a stun gun, Kizer said.

Kizer posted about the arrests on the Bryant Police Department’s Facebook page and said the men deserved the “stupid award of the week so far.”

Arkansas, Pages 20 on 07/07/2013

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