{"id":255560,"date":"2026-07-30T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255560\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:28:08","slug":"bomb-squad-called-after-inert-grenade-thrown-into-philadelphia-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255560\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad called after inert grenade thrown into Philadelphia home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bomb squad rushed to a residential Philadelphia neighborhood after a grenade was thrown into a home Thursday morning \u2014 but thankfully, the grenade was inert and not dangerous, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 2 a.m. on the 400 block of Courtland Street in Feltonville. Officers responded, and the Philadelphia Police Bomb Disposal Unit was soon called out.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 3:30 a.m., the bomb squad secured the grenade and removed it from the scene. The explosive was later found to pose no danger.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. There&#8217;s no word on who threw the grenade, where they obtained it, or what criminal charges they may face.<\/p>\n<p>Grenades are classified as &#8220;offensive weapons&#8221; under Pennsylvania state law and it&#8217;s illegal to possess them.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bomb squad rushed to a residential Philadelphia neighborhood after a grenade was thrown into a home Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-255560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}