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.