SYRACUSE, Ind. – Police in northern Indiana are investigating how a grenade came to be next to a Goodwill donation box.
Syracuse Police Chief Jim Layne said officers acting on a report from the public found the military-style grenade lying in the grass near the donation box Monday morning.
WSBT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2deUEAb ) police blocked streets around the area and notified people at businesses and homes in the area to remain indoors.
Layne says a bomb squad from Elkhart used a robot to pick up the grenade and place it in a containment vessel for transport to a place where it could be safely destroyed. Layne says the bomb squad believes the grenade was inert.
Syracuse is about 30 miles southeast of South Bend.
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Information from: WSBT-TV, http://www.wsbt.com/
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