{"id":180185,"date":"2026-03-30T22:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:14:04","slug":"small-explosive-device-found-in-suburban-new-york-neighborhood-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180185\/","title":{"rendered":"Small explosive device found in suburban New York neighborhood, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A small explosive device was found by an apartment building door in suburban New York after residents heard booms early Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The White Plains Police Department said it was talking to two \u201cpeople of interest\u201d in the matter Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and no property was damaged by the odd events on Odell Avenue in White Plains, about a 45-minute drive north of midtown Manhattan. But nearby residents had been told to stay indoors for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a news release that residents reported what they thought was a transformer explosion around 4:30 a.m. Police checked out local transformers and found nothing out of the ordinary. Then an officer noticed the device near the door of a small apartment building just after 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>White Plains Public Safety Commissioner Wade Hardy <a href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/possible-small-explosive-device-in-white-plains-prompts-shelterinplace-and-large-police-response\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Journal News<\/a> that the explosive object wasn&#8217;t set up for remote detonation.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Yulissa Severino told the news outlet that she heard two loud booms during the night \u2014 and has heard similar noises in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose other times, I thought someone was going to blow up the block, it was so loud,&#8221; Severino said. She said she watched from her balcony Monday as police led two men away in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>An effort to reach the building&#8217;s owner wasn&#8217;t immediately successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A small explosive device was found by an apartment building door in suburban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,72796,9,24,63,833,834,3065,2336,829,831,129,131,130,3943],"class_list":{"0":"post-180185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-explosive-device-found-white-plains","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","14":"tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","15":"tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","16":"tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","17":"tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","18":"tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","21":"tag-the-bronx-news","22":"tag-white-plains"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}