COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Fairfield County man who went looking for scrap metal found something a lot rarer — three cannonballs.
Chad Yoke Jr. was searching for scrap metal in the 100 block of North Broad Street in Bremen, on April 20 when he came across what turned out to be cannonballs in the trash. Yoke then called the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office, who then called a bomb squad unit and the neighborhood was evacuated.
Columbus Division of Fire Lt. Nick Davis said his agency collected the items and confirmed they were cannonballs. Davis said the fire department gets several of these kinds of calls a year, and it is usually family members who bring the items home as war mementos…