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.”
Improvised explosive at Gainesville home detonated safely by GBI