ASPEN, Colo. — Police say today the man wanted for delivering threatening notes to Aspen, Colo., banks had left four bombs made of gasoline and cell phones around this resort town.

Police cleared a 16-block area of downtown Wednesday afternoon and the bombs did not detonate.

The man, James Chester Blanning, shot and killed himself in his car a few hours after the threatening notes cleared much of the town on New Year's Eve. His body was found this morning.

Police say Blanning, 72, walked into two Aspen banks Wednesday afternoon and left packages wrapped in holiday paper along with notes saying the boxes contained bombs. The notes demanded $60,000.

Later, police found two similar packages in a downtown alley atop a black sled. All four boxes contained homemade bombs of gasoline and cell phones, police said.