PHOTO: A man who threatened to detonate a stick of dynamite in a residential neighborhood was taken into custody by Pocatello police on Saturday night during an incident that caused evacuations and temporarily shut down a city street, police said.
The incident began to unfold around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when the girlfriend of the man contacted Pocatello police because he had been threatening to blow up the city with dynamite, police said.
When police officers responded to the man's home in the 600 block of North 10th Avenue near Pocatello City Hall, the man was outside his residence holding the stick of dynamite, police said. The man told the officers that he planned to blow himself up with the dynamite, police said.