{"id":56886,"date":"2025-07-15T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=56886"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:30:00","slug":"grenade-discovered-outside-dartmouth-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=56886","title":{"rendered":"Grenade discovered outside Dartmouth home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> A grenade has been detonated by Halifax Regional Police that was found outside a home in Dartmouth on Tuesday morning, July 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say that at approximately 6:30 a.m., police were contacted by a resident of Pauline Crescent in Dartmouth reporting a grenade had been thrown onto their property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers evacuated homes on Pauline Crescent and closed the street to vehicle and pedestrian traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some homes on Belle Vista Drive were also evacuated throughout the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Explosive Disposal Unit, with the support of the Navy\u2019s Fleet Diving Unit, used a robot to x-ray the suspicious item, confirm it was a live grenade and transport it away from nearby homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 3:40 p.m. the grenade was successfully detonated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one was injured and no properties were damaged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said at 3:50 p.m., streets were reopened and residents were able to return to their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation into the incident is ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call police at 902-490-5020. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling toll-free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting a secure web tip at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4RCo0Z47Ki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/crimestoppers.ns.ca<\/a> or using the P3 Tips App. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File 25-100502<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARTMOUTH: A grenade has been detonated by Halifax Regional Police that was found outside a home in Dartmouth on Tuesday morning, July 15. Police say that at approximately 6:30 a.m., police were contacted by a resident of Pauline Crescent in Dartmouth reporting a grenade had been thrown onto their property. Officers evacuated homes on Pauline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[185,8771,50,918,51],"class_list":["post-56886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-dartmouth","tag-grenade","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-regional-police","tag-hrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}