Everett Police Find Live Hand Grenade in Home

– Allison Goldsberry

On Tuesday afternoon Everett Police encountered a live hand grenade in a recently purchased home, according to information posted on the department’s Facebook page.

Police received a call around 3:15 PM about a suspicious device at a home on Spring Street, which straddles Route 16 and runs next to the football stadium. Responding officers thought the device might be a hand grenade, so the area around the home was evacuated for safety reasons.

Everett Police brought in a bomb-sniffing dog and, working with the State Police bomb squad, determined that the device was in fact a live hand grenade. Police say the grenade was brought to a “safe area and detonated.”

The incident remains under investigation.