Woman brings grenade into police station

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The police department was briefly evacuated after a woman decided she should bring in a hand grenade she found.
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The unidentified woman handed it to an officer Thursday after finding it while cleaning out a relative's belongings. The officer immediately took it outside the building and police cleared the building until the bomb squad took it away and detonated it about an hour later.

The grenade appeared to be live.

"When we countercharged it, it went boom," bomb squad supervisor Lt. James Brandon told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.