House cleaning turns up live grenade in Roeland Park home

A house-cleaning project in Roeland Park got exciting Sunday when people going through the basement of a home at 4900 W. 51st St. discovered what turned out to be a live grenade.

Roeland Park police were called to the scene at about 3:30 p.m. and immediately determined the grenade was live.

The Olathe bomb squad arrived to remove the grenade. It was not immediately known how the grenade wound up in the basement.

This story was originally published May 11, 2014 at 8:08 PM with the headline "House cleaning turns up live grenade in Roeland Park home."