MULDRAUGH, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A trailer park in Muldraugh, Ky. was evacuated after several pipe bombs are found in a trash can on the property.
Now state and federal agents are investigating who is responsible for making the explosives.
Investigators have a person of interest in the case who they say was a resident of the trailer park who they believe has since left town.
WHAS11 spoke with the maintenance worker who found the explosives and residents who were frightened to learn what was found just feet from their home.
"Several plastic pipes with caps and tape and a couple metal pipes with caps and tape." maintenance worker, Ron Howard, said.
That's what Howard found in a home on Third Street of the Muldraugh Trailer Park.
"The biggest one was that big" added Howard.
They may not have looked big...
“It was enough to punch a hole in that steel dumpster," one resident, Jeffrey Osieczonek, said.
The explosives were detonated by the Kentucky State Police. Howard says he actually found explosives Tuesday while cleaning out the trailer.
"I didn't really think it was anything big so I threw it away. Then I got to thinking what if it is so I talked to the chief of police today and they had the bomb squad come. It obviously was a little bigger than what I thought it was," Howard added.
Muldraugh Police Chief Charlie Ashbaugh says a husband, wife, and child lived in the home but left Muldraugh and possibly the state of Kentucky in the last few weeks. He says the husband is who investigators believe crafted the explosives.
Mary Gaines was one of several people evacuated from their homes as a precaution. She says finding something so dangerous close to her home was unsettling and a lesson to her young kids.
"I told them there's a lot of things out there you're not allowed to touch and if you see something that doesn't look right, you need to come and get mommy," Gaines said.
Muldraugh schools were made aware of the situation but weren't forced to go on lockdown; however, some drop-off points for busses were affected by investigation.
