Live grenades found at History Center of Freeborn County

Video Player is loading.
Current Time 0:00
Duration 0:00
Loaded: 0%
Stream Type LIVE
Remaining Time 0:00
 
1x

Grenade scare at History Center of Freeborn County

The day's local, regional and national news, detailed events and late-breaking stories are presented by the ABC 6 News Team, along with the latest sports, weather updates including the extended forecast.

(ABC 6 News) – A bomb squad was called in to the History Center of Freeborn County on Wednesday after they found live grenades in their collection.

The History Center posted about the incident to their Facebook page after they found three live grenades in one of their collections.

Courtesy of History Center of Freeborn County on Facebook.

The discovery leaving members of the history center stunned.

“Quite honestly, it’s a little unnerving, but it was pretty cool. You know that’s your standard grenade. These were a quite a bit different,” said Stephanie Kibler, Executive Director of the History Center of Freeborn County.

The Albert Lea Police Department and the St. Paul Police Department Bomb Squad were called in. The explosives were carried out, and thankfully, none of them went off and no one was hurt.

The police department said this isn’t the first time that they have responded to something like this.

“The police department does get these, I wouldn’t say regularly but it’s not uncommon either. The museum while we were there, decided to look around a little further to see if they had anything else that might stick out as potentially dangerous in that regard,” said Jason Taylor, patrol sergeant with the Albert Lea Police Department.

The History Center of Freeborn County also posted a video of the incident to their Facebook, as authorities safely bagged up the grenades.