Overview
- Police took a suspect into custody after an improvised explosive device caused a blast at a home on E. Otway Street in Odessa, Missouri.
- Crews first checked for a natural gas leak, but the Missouri State Fire Marshal and utility Spire ruled gas out as the cause.
- Tests at the scene found chemicals linked to an improvised explosive device, which led officials to evacuate nearby residents and on‑scene first responders.
- The FBI, ATF, Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Lafayette County Drug Task Force joined the probe, and officials finished searching the area by the evening with no further public threat.
- Investigators located an uninjured suspect during a search of the residence, booked the person into the Lafayette County Jail, and sent the case to the county prosecutor to consider charges.