College Cancels Event Due to Fake Grenade
A Sept. 11 ceremony was canceled at Sierra College on Wednesday after a 20-year-old student was spotted with a fake hand grenade.
Two female students reported the incident after they noticed what they thought was a grenade on the dash of a student’s vehicle as he was parking his car. The male student then put the device into a backpack and went to class.
A Placer County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad destroyed the backpack and the device, which turned out to be a nonexplosive military surplus grenade. The student told detectives that the grenade was a gift for his girlfriend’s father.
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