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Bomb scare closes 1st and Grant

An old "air-drop bomb" left at East First Avenue and North Grant Road last night caused the evacuation of three duplexes and five businesses, police said.

Tucson Police Sgt. Marco Borboa said a piece of military ordnance was left in the parking lot of the Texaco station at the intersection and police were called at 5:27 p.m.

The bomb was rendered safe at about 10:30 p.m., Borboa said, and the area was cleared. Traffic was blocked for about five hours and a half hours.

The ordnance was purchased at a yard sale earlier in the day in the Oracle Junction area and the person who bought it thought it might be ticking and called police.

Borboa said the bomb was of military origins and about 50 or 60 years old - dating to the time of the Korean War.

"We made a perimeter, contained the area and called our bomb techs," he said.

An Explosion Ordnance Destruction Team from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was called to disassemble the bomb.

Borboa said Davis-Monthan officials took custody of the bomb to properly identify it.