{"id":222632,"date":"2026-05-06T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:40:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bomb-squad-responds-after-sheepshead-bay-resident-finds-grenade-inside-their-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222632\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bomb Squad Responds After Sheepshead Bay Resident Finds Grenade Inside Their Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD bomb squad responded to Sheepshead Bay after a resident called 911 to report that they found what looked like a hand grenade inside their home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the call came in just after 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, sending units to 2668 East 23rd St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD&#8217;s Emergency Service Unit blocked off an area around the home as a precaution while officers investigated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A neighbor tells News 12 the woman who lives in the home was cleaning out her house when she &#8220;found something that scared her&#8221; and called 911 just to be safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The neighbor says the woman&#8217;s father, who used to live in the house, was &#8220;in the military like 60 years ago and collected things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Despite the chaos that took over the residential block, the neighbor tells News 12 that residents remained calm.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 crews saw the bomb squad leaving around two hours later.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the bomb squad deemed the device was inert and that it is unclear if it was a hand grenade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD bomb squad responded to Sheepshead Bay after a resident called 911 to report that they found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-222632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222632","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=222632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}