This episode contains strong language. Please be advised.

The call came from the 88th Precent to the bomb squad at around 1 a.m.

The date was July 31st, 1997.

They said that they had an individual that claims that his roommates were assembling bombs. That's retired bomb squad detective Paul Yerkew.

He was on duty the night an Egyptian national approach to MTA officers outside the Atlantic Avenue train station in downtown Brooklyn.

He made a startling claim. His roommates were making bombs in their nearby apartment.

New York City was on high alert because of the suicide bombings in Jerusalem the day before.

The man was quickly taken to the 88th precinct.

By the time Detective Yorkhew got there, the informant was upstairs talking to detectives.

An interpreter was on his way, and communication was limited.

We went in to talk with him, and we introduced ourselves ourselves and we try to have him in very broken

English try to explain to us what he saw.

For Yoku, a veteran of countless bomb threats, one thing mattered most, clear answers.

He relied on his experience and kept his approach simple and direct.

We were in a small room.

I reached over to a desk, and I took a blank piece of paper and a pencil, and I motioned.

I said, you know, draw, draw me what you saw.

And he drew the best pipe palm I ever saw in my life.

We asked how many.

And he put his hand up like five, five fingers,

like five explosives.

I'm retired detective sergeant, Wally Zions, and you're listening to Break in the Case,

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