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Live Grenade Found Triggers CT Bomb Squad Response; Practice Explosive Also Located Live Grenade Found Triggers CT Bomb Squad Response; Practice Explosive Also Located
Live Grenade Found Triggers CT Bomb Squad Response; Practice Explosive Also Located A quiet morning in Norwalk took a tense turn when two separate hand grenades were discovered — one of them live — prompting a swift response from local police and a bomb squad. Officers from the Norwalk Police Department were first called around 10:20 a.m. Monday, June 30, to a home on St. Mary’s Lane, where a resident found a grenade by the side of the road. That device was later determined to be “disabled and inert," authorities said.  But hours later, things got more serious. At about 3:30 p.m., police were dispatched to another report of a found hand grenade, this time in a backya…

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Masked Men Hold Knives To Teen Girl During Attempted Plainfield Home Invasion Masked Men Hold Knives To Teen Girl During Attempted Plainfield Home Invasion
Masked Men Hold Knives To Teen Girl During Attempted Plainfield Home Invasion A 15-year-old Connecticut girl was held at knifepoint as two masked men attempted a home invasion, authorities said. The girl was sitting in a car parked outside a North Chestnut Street home in the Wauregan section of Plainfield around 4:15 a.m. on New Year's Day when the men approached her, police said. They threatened her before one of them entered the house's enclosed porch. That’s when someone inside noticed the intruders and confronted them, forcing them to run away, Plainfield police said. Officers, along with a Connecticut State Police K9 unit, searched the area, but the suspects el…

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by Josh Lanier