Court Evacuated After Bomb Threats
About 100 people were evacuated from the Glendale County Courthouse on Monday after officials received several telephone calls that a bomb was set to go off in the building at 9:15 a.m.
Judge Barbara Burke ordered the courthouse evacuated about 9 a.m. after a sheriff’s deputy and a Superior Court clerk received warnings that there was an explosive device in the building, said Sgt. Bill Elton, commander of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department squad assigned to the building.
After searching the grounds several times, deputies allowed everyone back inside about 30 minutes later, Elton said.
Elton said that phony bomb threats are not unusual at courthouses.
Although the false alarm left some frazzled, it failed to jumble the court’s full schedule, he said.
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