Inactive grenade found in donation prompts evacuation at Glendale Goodwill

Nov. 18, 2015 12:05 PM PT

A grenade found in a bag of items donated to a Glendale Goodwill prompted a store evacuation Tuesday evening before it was determined to be inert, officials said.

At around 7 p.m., authorities were called to the store, located in the 1600 block of West Glenoaks Boulevard, where an employee found a grenade in a trash bag of donated items, said Glendale Police spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s bomb squad reportedly determined that the grenade was real, but did not have explosive contents.

No injuries were reported. Police did not know who donated the bag.

Alene Tchekmedyian, alene.tchekmedyian@latimes.com

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Alene Tchekmedyian

Alene Tchekmedyian is an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, focusing on accountability stories and writing about failures by officials to comply with transparency laws. Before joining The Times in 2016, she reported on crime and policing for the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader.