HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT A 4-foot-tall steel pipe that appeared to be an explosive device was found this morning in the 1900 block of Vicky Ann Drive. The Hazardous Device Response Team from Las Vegas responded to the scene along with NCSO and Pahrump Valley Fire-Rescue Service. Advertisement

Both sides of the 1900 block of Vicky Ann Drive were evacuated yesterday when Nye County Sheriff's Office and Pahrump Valley Fire-Rescue Service were dispatched to investigate a pipe bomb around 9 a.m.

When authorities arrived, the homeowner was sitting on his front porch, calmly waiting.

Wednesday evening there had been a disturbance in the back of his property, so he checked the area this morning. He found what appeared to be a bomb, stuffed into a 4-by-1-foot steel pipe at the edge of his backyard.

"We found a suspicious device," said Sheriff Tony DeMeo.

"We took a photograph and the fire department had the capability to email it from the scene into Las Vegas to the FBI bomb technician.

"By working in conjunction with Homeland Security, we notified all the resources available to us."

According to DeMeo, the homeowner said he saw or heard more than one individual outside his place of residence. When he came out yesterday morning, he found the apparent device.

At press time, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's bomb truck had arrived at the residence.

There appeared to be no connection between this event and Wednesday's bomb threat at the town landfill.