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Suspicious device briefly shuts down eastbound 210 Freeway in Pasadena

Motorists wait outside their vehicles in the backup after a suspicious device shut down traffic on the eastbound 210 Freeway in Pasadena for a couple of hours Wednesday morning.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
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A suspicious device on the 210 Freeway briefly closed all eastbound lanes in Pasadena on Wednesday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.

The device was spotted in the roadway about 8:45 a.m. just below the Lake Avenue overpass and may have been thrown from a nearby Metro station, CHP Officer Peter Nicholson said.

Traffic was at a standstill while the CHP and sheriff’s deputies investigated.

“It’s bad,” Nicholson said of the traffic.

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Lanes were reopened about 10:45 a.m., the CHP said. Metro Gold Line closed service at the Lake Station and was using buses for passengers there, the agency tweeted.

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UPDATES:

11:05 a.m.: This post was updated to report that the eastbound lanes were reopened.

This article was originally published at 10 a.m.

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