Fayetteville

Police have arrested five people after an homemade explosive device was

thrown out of a truck the evening of Saturday, May 3.

According to

warrants filed for their arrest, the device was made with a household

cleaning product, an empty plastic bottle and other ingredients. The device

was thrown from a truck that evening and all five people arrested were

in the truck when the incident occurred, warrants said.

It is not clear

how much damage the device may have caused.

Shaun Ryan

McIntosh, 21, and Derek Wade Butler, 20, were arrested for possession

of a destructive device. Both McIntosh and Butler made the device, warrants

said.

Three others

were charged with being a party to the crime of possession of a destructive

device: Stephen Jesse Farr, 19; Jennifer Nicklas Smith, 18, and Joshua

Adam Singletary, 20.

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