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search warrant was applied for and granted. During the execution of the warrant one subject was taken into custody, transported to the Pierce County Jail and booked under (Wisconsin State Statute) Possession of Explosives. Another individual was taken into custody on an unrelated matter.

The suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

“The Prescott Police Department thanks the following agencies for their assistances in this investigating and resulting arrest: Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, Wisconsin State Patrol, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Justice.”

Court records show that Bleyle reached a plea agreement in Pierce County Court Sept. 22, 2020 on theft charges and charges of resisting or obstructing an officer. He was placed on two years of probation, running concurrently with probation sentenced in Chippewa County, Wl and Dakota County, MN cases.

On Aug. 23, the area around Campbell Street near the Prescott Post Office was blocked off and neighborhoods were evacuated for more than three hours until the St. Paul Bomb Squad collected the device. At the time, Michaels said a man driving by noticed the device on the side of the road and called police.