The State - News from Nov. 26, 1985

Would-be bank robbers used a pipe bomb in an unsuccessful attempt to blast their way into a night deposit safe at a Wells Fargo office in Sacramento. Sandbags were placed to direct the force of the explosion into the brick wall of the bank near the deposit slot, sheriff’s detectives said. But the blast left the wall and safe intact. It blew the hinges off the front door of the building, shattered several large windows and ripped apart the ceiling inside the bank, detectives said. The force of the blast hurled a piece of the 2 1/2-inch-diameter pipe, which contained the explosive substance, through a window on the opposite side of the bank. The would-be thieves escaped.