Burglars robbed a south Nevada County home and left the resident a bomb in return, the resident reported Friday.

A resident at 10514 Smith Road off Highway 49 called 911 and reported a burglary of his home and a pipe bomb in his garage at about 10:40 a.m., said Sheriff's Capt. Ken Duncan. The name of the homeowner was not available, he said.

Nevada County sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene at 10:54, a sheriff's log said. Nevada County Consolidated Fire Protection District also responded.

The State Fire Marshal's bomb squad arrived from Oroville about an hour later and the explosive was detonated, a sheriff's log said.

No one was injured, said a deputy on the scene at 4 p.m. The homeowner was not available for comment, he said.

This was the third time a bomb squad detonated a bomb or possible bomb in Nevada County since November.

A Grass Valley man found a small bomb while looking for mushrooms on Nov. 19. Officers detonated what looked like dynamite sticks and cannon fuses in an old ammunition can on Red Dog Road and Lowell Hill Road on that occasion. The detonation was in the middle of the dirt road.

A pipe bomb was detonated in Penn Valley on Nov. 22. The device was found by an unidentified resident atop a guardrail on Pleasant Valley Road at Pine Shadows Lane. The device was six inches long, one inch in diameter and made of cardboard with an eight-inch fuse. The pipe was filled with smokeless gunpowder. The bomb was blown up at the Nevada County Transfer Station.

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