Fans delayed getting into Raptors game after police detonate suspicious package

Toronto Police Service detonated a suspicious package outside of a Raptors game on Friday night that was later found to be a plastic replica grenade.

Police spokeswoman Katrina Arrogante said police received a call about the suspicious package at one of the ACC’s entrances just before 6 p.m. ET on Friday.

She said officers, paramedics, firefighters and members of the force’s chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear explosives team arrived at the scene.

Sgt. Stephen Sadler told reporters at the scene that police detonated the plastic grenade “out of an abundance of caution.”