Police: Reported grenade was decorative item

Emergency service officers and fire rescue personnel performed a controlled detonation of a hand grenade found inside a Hauppauge home late Monday evening, police said.

But, it turned out, the grenade wasn't a real grenade, Suffolk County police said.

It was a decorative item.

The incident began with a 911 call placed about 10 p.m. reporting an explosive device, believed to be a grenade, inside a home on Wheeler Road.

Emergency service personnel, as well as firefighters, went to the scene and closed off northbound and southbound Wheeler Road at Kings Highway, police said.

The emergency service officers removed the device from the home -- and performed what police called a controlled explosion.

That was when police learned the device was not real, since it did not explode.

It was not immediately clear who reported that the device was in the home or what led someone to believe it might be dangerous. Officials said it was decorative -- and believe the item may have been used as a type of paperweight.