Unattended bag prompts bomb squad response at Long Beach Airport
As a precaution, authorities evacuated a nearby parking lot and a parking structure in the rental car area.
As a precaution, authorities evacuated a nearby parking lot and a parking structure in the rental car area.
Two suitcases chained to a bike rack near a parking structure in downtown Long Beach prompted street closures and a response from a bomb squad that ultimately rendered the objects safe Thursday afternoon.
Long Beach Police Department officers were dispatched to Belmont Shore regarding a suspicious package in the 5400 block of East Ocean Boulevard. The item did not contain any explosives.
A Long Beach Airport (LGB) terminal was briefly evacuated Tuesday after a TSA dog alerted officials to a suspicious package, according to LGB officials.
Roads near the city’s Traffic Circle were closed down for hours Monday evening due to a suspicious package that was eventually rendered safe by a sheriff’s bomb squad.
The suspicious package found in a bike locker at the Metro Blue Line’s Wardlow Station in Long Beach Thursday was rendered safe.
The suspect who was detained for attempting to carry a suspicious device into the Gov. George Deukmejian courthouse in Long Beach, which resulted in the evacuation of the building for approximately an hour and a half, has been identified.