Indianapolis - Police Find Grenades During Traffic Stop
May 20, 2008
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Metro police found much more than they expected during a traffic stop on the city’s west side.
Monday morning, police stopped a car during a drug investigation. They say the driver had two grenades in a coat pocket.
It happened at around 10:30 a.m. on West Washington Street at Belleview.
Bomb experts came out, got the grenades, and put them in a metal box. They will take them to a safe place and blow them up.
“We evacuated the businesses and made sure the customers and everybody stayed off the street. Those do have a blast area so we made sure that was cleared. But yes, they are very, very dangerous,” said Major Brian Mahone of the Indianapolis Metro Police Department.
Grenades can take many forms: smoke, tear gas, or hard the traditional hard explosives meant to blow up and hurt someone. Police believe the grenades found were very dangerous and not legal to carry around.
Officers won’t say at this point what charges the driver faces, for the grenades or the initial drug case they were working when they pulled him over.
They said they’ll work to figure out why the man had them and whether that means others are out on the streets as we speak.
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I had one of those hollowed out practice grenades as a kid. Bought it at an Army-Navy store.
You can still buy them, hollowed-out at gun shows.
In fact I thing I remember seeing then at a gun show in Indy back a few years ago.