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8-year-old makes jaw-dropping discovery in his Sacramento backyard — neighbors are evacuated

Nypost · · 300 words · By Nina Joudeh
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8-year-old makes jaw-dropping discovery in his Sacramento backyard — neighbors are evacuated An 8-year-old boy in Sacramento County made a jaw-dropping discovery in his backyard — a live military mortar — setting off a neighborhood evacuation.

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What happened

8-year-old makes jaw-dropping discovery in his Sacramento backyard — neighbors are evacuated An 8-year-old boy in Sacramento County made a jaw-dropping discovery in his backyard — a live military mortar — setting off a neighborhood evacuation.

Why it matters

North Patrol deputies responded just after noon when the homeowner’s son uncovered the object while digging in their yard on the 5500 block of Marconi Avenue.

Common ground

It was suspected to be unexploded ordnance, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “It was suspected to be unexploded ordnance, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.”
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Wikipedia entries about Sacramento County Sheriff's Office and unrelated topics (Carmichael, California county jails) do not mention unexploded ordnance suspicions in this context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carmichael is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is an unincorporated suburb in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 79,793 at …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California's county jails function like county jails throughout the United States: they are used to incarcerate people pre-trial, through a trial and sentencing, and for some sentences of commitment. …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office (SSO), is a local law enforcement agency that serves Sacramento County, California. It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Sacram…
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Claim 2: “Neighbors waited outside their homes for four hours while the Sheriff’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team investigated the scene carefully.”
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Wikipedia entries about unrelated events (Dallas shooting, Baltimore County, Brevard County) do not mention evacuations or EOD team investigations in Sacramento County.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Baltimore County is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland. The county is part of the Central Maryland region of the state. Baltimore County partly surrounds but does not include…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brevard County ( brə-VARD) is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is on the Atlantic coast of eastern Central Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 606,612, making it the 10th-most …
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Claim 3: “North Patrol deputies responded just after noon when the homeowner’s son uncovered the object while digging in their yard on the 5500 block of Marconi Avenue.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the claim about deputies responding to Marconi Avenue.
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Claim 4: “That munition itself has a capability to send frag out 1,000 feet.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the mortar's fragment range capability.
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Claim 5: “An 8-year-old boy in Sacramento County made a jaw-dropping discovery in his backyard — a live military mortar — setting off a neighborhood evacuation.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the claim about the 8-year-old discovering a mortar.
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Claim 6: “Authorities safely removed and destroyed the mortar with assistance from Air Force explosive ordnance disposal teams from Beale Air Force Base, reported ABC10.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the involvement of Air Force EOD teams from Beale Air Force Base.
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Claim 7: “Sgt. Edward Igoe of the Sacramento PD told the outlet that the munition discovered at the home dates back to 1953.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the 1953 dating of the munition.
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Claim 8: “The U.S. Air Force arrived and confirmed the object was a live 81mm mortar.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the U.S. Air Force's identification of the mortar.
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