The Denver Police bomb squad found two grenades in a pair of military style ammunition boxes that somebody left near the intersection of 17th Avenue and Emerson Street today.
Both grenades were “inert,” meaning they couldn’t explode, said Denver Police spokeswoman Vicki Ferrari.
Police blocked off 17th Avenue from Clarkson to Ogden streets after a passerby reported the boxes under a tree near the curb at about 1:30 p.m.
A bomb squad truck came to the scene and a member dressed in a protective suit and helmet approached the boxes at about 2:30 p.m. The officer placed one of the metal boxes into a a larger box and carried it to the truck then put it inside.
The officer then returned and disposed of the second box the same way.
“As of right now this is still under investigation,” Ferrari said. Anyone with information should call the police, she added.
