All Clear After Live Grenade Found At Currahee Military Museum
The grenade was located by the above parking spaces when the GBI arrived on scene.
All is clear now in downtown Toccoa after a live grenade was found Friday at the Currahee Military Museum.
Stephens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Andy Myers said sheriff’s deputies responded during the 11 a.m. hour Friday and began cordoning off an area in the parking lot of the museum on Alexander Street in downtown Toccoa.
Soon after, Toccoa Police officers were on the scene as well to assist with clearing an area around the live grenade, which was sitting in the parking lot.
Myers said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was contacted about the grenade.
Toccoa Police Detective Jimmy Mize said an agent from the GBI arrived to handle the device.
“The GBI bomb squad sent a tech down to retrieve the grenade,” said Mize. “It was determined that it was a live grenade and it is possibly a phosphorous grenade from back during the World War II area that was used for bunkers and armored car carriers and things.”
The GBI agent removed the device just after 1 p.m. and the area was cleared as the device was taken away to be disposed of properly.
Myers said that the live canister was in among a bunch of empty canisters that had been given to the museum.
Mize said that nobody was aware that there was a live canister in among the empty ones.
“During the investigation, it was determined that it was in some items that were in the museum from another museum collector in North Carolina,” said Mize.
Nobody was hurt in the incident.