CADILLAC, MI -- Police in Cadillac recovered a British World War I mortar from a condemned home and later discovered the device was filled with sand.
Crews were demolishing a home on Whaley Road on Monday, May 19, when they found the mortar and called police. Officers contacted the Michigan State Police bomb squad.
Two technicians determined the device was a British World War I 3-inch mortar and was believed to be a practice round.
An X-ray showed something inside the chamber, so the technicians took the mortar to a gravel pit and shot a charge through the side of the device, which revealed it was filled with sand.