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Improvised explosive at Gainesville home detonated safely by GBI
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A suspicious device found Monday night at a Sherwood Road residence is being classified as an “improvised explosive.” Residents in the area were evacuated Monday night to First Baptist Church on Green Street in Gainesville, returning to their homes before 11 p.m. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Gainesville Police said the suspicious device found Monday night at a Sherwood Road residence is being classified as an “improvised explosive.” The device was reported to police after 5 p.m. Monday, and bomb technicians detonated it after 10 p.m. that night. A woman answering the phone at the residence said they found a box with “some things in it that we didn’t know what it was.”