A woman walked into Bensalem's police station Tuesday afternoon carrying a sawed-off shotgun and a rocket-propelled grenade.
She essentially said, “I found these” before Bensalem Sgt. Fred Schumann took the grenade from her and rushed it outside while other cops evacuated the area and called Philadelphia's bomb squad.
The grenade was shaped like a rocket with fins on the back, according to Lt. Karl Mascia. The shell was a faded black color, which led some cops to think it dated back to at least World War II. And the device didn't appear to have drill holes on its covering, which would have indicated a disarmed explosive that you can buy at an Army-Navy store and use as a paper weight.
Schumann and other Bensalem cops placed the bomb in a patch of grass behind the police station and covered the potential explosive with sandbags.
As the bomb squad was headed to Bensalem, the woman said she was moving out of her house of the past 13 years in “The Coves” neighborhood when she found the weapons.
The shotgun was in the attic. The grenade was in a crawl space under the house.
Police declined to identify the woman or where she lives. But they said the house has had at least two previous owners. So, the weapons could've been there for decades.
Sawed-off shotguns are illegal. So are “live” grenades. Mascia said police plan to find out who owned the weapons.
Bomb squad officers examined the grenade before placing it in a red box. Mascia said the cops believed the bomb was inactive. But they took it to Philadelphia, where they will detonate it to find out for sure.
If there's a lesson to be learned from this situation, it's don't take bombs or grenades to the police station, Bensalem Public Safety Director Fred Harran said. Leave explosives where you find them and then call 911.

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