By Shari Kaplan
Ten minutes after midnight on July 27, Los Gatos police responded to an apartment complex at 256 Calle Marguerita, where a pipe bomb had crashed through the window of one of the units.
According to LGPD Sgt. Tricia Friedrich, a tenant and her husband awakened to a crashing sound in their kitchen. When they got to the kitchen, they found a broken window and bent miniblinds. On the floor of the adjacent living room, the woman saw a pipe bomb, approximately six inches long.
The bomb apparently hit the floor and rolled, but it did not explode, Friedrich said, explaining that, in order to throw the device through the kitchen window, the suspect must have been in the complex's driveway.
Police summoned the bomb squad of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, which safely removed the pipe bomb from the premises for further examination.
An investigation is under way, Friedrich said, and police have been going door-to-door to speak with tenants in neighboring apartments who may have seen or heard anything that night. Anyone with information on the incident or on a possible suspect may call the LGPD's investigations unit at 354-6825.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, August 7, 1996.
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