MCCAMEY, Texas — Four Midland Police Department officers responded to a cluster bomb scare in McCamey on Monday due to a request from Upton County Sheriff Sara Brown, according to a City of Midland press release.
MPD received the request from the sheriff around 9:48 a.m. Sheriff Brown was heading to the 300 block of South Crockett due to a believed cluster bomb munition two blocks away from a school.
According to the release, Midland police officials reached out Dyess Air Force Base EOD in Abilene for help. Dyess officials said the believed cluster bomb munition looked like a military munition and that they were going to deploy officials from the base to the site.
MPD's Kevin Bullard, Micheal Pool, Kyle Slagle and Brian Rackow were the only ones on scene from their department during the incident.
The City of Midland stated in the release that local officials took the appropriate actions and set up a perimeter. At that time, there was no threat to the nearby school.
Below is what MPD found out from the investigation:
“Before the team arrived on scene, Dyess called and said that they believed it was a second stage hydraulic cement collar used to seal a bore hole. They gave us guidance on what we should see on the X-ray of the item to help make the determination. Kyle and Micheal went down range for X-rays at approximately 1:08 p.m. X-Rays determined that there was no threat, and it was an oilfield tool." - Midland Police Department
No further information on the incident was released.
