Police Defuse Bomb Found on Sidewalk
Brea police Monday described an object found on a city sidewalk over the weekend as a makeshift bomb that could have seriously injured or killed someone.
“It was similar to a pipe bomb, about 6 inches in length,” Lt. Martin Needham said. “It had destructive capabilities.”
A jogger found the device about 8 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of West Lambert Road.
Police evacuated people from a nearby Mobil gas station and Calvary Chapel Church for two hours while the sheriff’s bomb squad used a robot to 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.”
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