NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have given the all clear after they responded to a report of a live grenade found in a shopping cart in Northwest Miami-Dade.
Miami-Dade Police responded to the area of the 6100 block of Northwest 32nd Avenue just before 5:30 p.m., Thursday.
According to police, an anonymous caller said they saw what appeared to be a live grenade in the cart.
Police said the suspicious device was found earlier in the day in a trash can at a nearby gas station.
“I was just concerned about the safety of the people. That’s it,” the man who found the item said. “I didn’t leave it because somebody might get a hold of it.”
Leo Gutierrez, one of the gas station’s clerks, said the man who found the item went up to a police officer who was nearby.
“He came like, you know, all crazy, saying like, ‘Oh, I got a grenade on the little cart. I found it,” this, this and that,” he said. “I really didn’t believe the guy ’cause I know the guy from the get go, so I thought in the beginning it was a joke, but it wasn’t.”
Police called out the bomb squad to help in their investigation.
7News cameras captured investigators walking the item to the park, where they detonated it.
The bomb squad gave the all clear just before 8 p.m.
7Skyforce HD hovered over the scene where multiple items of clothing could be seen on the floor surrounding a shopping cart.
Aerial footage also captured an officer opening a black container, pausing for a moment and then placing it next to the building.
Police have not released any additional information about the device that was found.
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