ELLSWORTH (AP) — Workers at a Maine Goodwill store got quite a shock when they opened a donated book and found a gun inside.
An employee at the Ellsworth store was going through a pile of books received from a central warehouse last week and noticed that one didn’t quite feel right.
The book — “Den of Lions” by former Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson chronicling his seven years as a hostage in Lebanon — was actually a small safe and inside was a .31 caliber black powder pistol.
Employees called police.
There was no identifying information with the book. Police ran the gun’s serial number through a national database but did not get a match.
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