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Bomb squad finds inactive grenades in student's backpack at Sarasota Military Academy, police say

By Joe Espy
Updated  November 18, 2025 2:58pm EST
Sarasota
FOX 13 News

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    The Brief

      • Sarasota police say a bomb squad found inactive grenades in a student's backpack while investigating at Sarasota Military Academy Tuesday morning.
      • According to the Sarasota Police Department, there was a large police presence on Orange Avenue after officers responded to a call for a suspicious backpack that a student had brought to school.
      • The grenades found in the backpack were real, but had been drilled out at the bottom. They were removed by law enforcement, SPD said.

    SARASOTA, Fla. - Sarasota police say a bomb squad found inactive grenades in a student's backpack while investigating at Sarasota Military Academy Tuesday morning.

    Timeline:

    According to the Sarasota Police Department, there was a large police presence on Orange Avenue after officers responded to a call for a suspicious backpack that a student had brought to school. School staff moved the backpack outside before police arrived around 11 a.m.

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    The grenades found in the backpack were real, but had been drilled out at the bottom. They were removed by law enforcement, SPD said.

    Orange Avenue between 8th Street and 10th Street was closed during the investigation.

    Courtesy: Sarasota Police Department

    Police say students and faculty that had been moved to a safer area of campus have now returned to class. No one was harmed during the incident.

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    The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Sarasota Police Department.

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