NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Authorities were called to investigate a report of a possible explosive found in a Brooklyn Home Depot Friday morning.
Employees at the store located at 550 Hamilton Avenue called police around 8 a.m. after a suspicious device was found at the hardware department of the Sunset Park store.
Responding officers evacuated the store as the NYPD’s Bomb Squad and Emergency Services Unit were called in to investigate further, police said.
ESU and the bomb squad deem the device a hoax by 10 a.m., and removed it from its location to be taken to a lab, officials said.
No injuries were reported.