Police: Glendale craft store subject of bomb prank
Police evacuated employees and shoppers from a Michaels near City Hall Monday afternoon following a report of a bomb at the craft store, but no suspicious packages were found, and authorities believe the incident may have been a prank.
[Updated at 8:14 p.m.]
Glendale police arrived at the store, in the 200 block of Glendale Avenue, at about 5:30 p.m., after a 911 caller claimed being shown a bomb, said Sgt. Tom Lorenz.
Bomb-sniffing dogs swept the area, but turned up nothing, leading police to believe the scare was potentially a prank, he said.
-- Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com
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