Crime & Safety
Grenade Shell Brings Bomb Squad to Brockway
The device did not contain gunpowder or firing mechanism, and posted no threat, according to a spokesperson for the Westchester County Department of Public Safety
The Westchester County Hazardous Devices Unit was called to Brockway Place in White Plains around 9 a.m. Friday on reports of a possible hand grenade at the municipal waste transfer station.
Though the bomb squad did find a grenade, it was only a shell without gunpowder or a firing mechanism and posed no treat, according to Westchester County Department of Public Safety Spokesperson Kieran O'Leary.
The department is conducting and investigation to determine where the grenade came from.
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City Carting contracts with Westchester County to operate the transfer station, which takes in municipal waste.
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