Bomb Found on Street Being Investigated
Brea police Monday described an object found on a city sidewalk over the weekend as a makeshift pyrotechnical bomb that could have seriously injured or killed someone had it exploded.
“It was similar to a pipe bomb, about 6 inches in length,” Lt. Martin Needham, a spokesman for the Brea Police Department, said of the device, found by a jogger about 8 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of West Lambert Road. “It had destructive capabilities.”
Police evacuated about 225 people from a nearby Calvary Chapel and a gas station for two hours while the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad used a robot to secure and defuse the device.
“It wasn’t close enough to any people or businesses to make us think that someone was being targeted,” Needham said. “It could have been inadvertently left there or thrown out of a car.”
The incident is being investigated, he said.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
