Suspicious object turns out to be speaker box

The Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad determined Saturday that an ammunition canister left in newspaper box was not a bomb, but a set of audio speakers.

A retired military veteran called the Sheriff’s Office at 10:35 a.m. from the IHOP® restaurant parking lot, 6495 Overseas Highway, where he had attempted to grab a newspaper from a newspaper box. He found a freshly painted, military-style ammunition box, which he found suspicious. 

Sgt. Christian Kellenberger responded and also found the ammunition canister to be suspicious.

The Sheriff’s Office quickly determined the canister had been converted into a speaker box.

The ammunition/speaker box was removed without incident.

The owner of the object is unknown at this time.