Breaking: Cragmont School evacuated
The Berkeley bomb squad is on its way to Cragmont Elementary School to investigate a suspicious package. As a precaution, the school has been evacuated and nearby streets have been closed, according to...
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Berkeley police have determined that the suspicious package found at Cragmont Elementary School was not a bomb; it was a lunchbox. But it did have wires coming out of it, according to Sgt. Mary...
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Bomb threat closes several Berkeley streets Wednesday
Several streets, including Le Roy and Le Conte avenues were blocked during a suspected bomb threat on Wednesday May 2 in Berkeley Police blocked several streets and prevented people getting into their...
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Bomb squad tackles suspicious package at fire station
Berkeley Fire Station 5: a bomb squad was called out Sunday to investigate a suspicious package found there at around 2:46pm A bomb squad removed devices contained in a suspicious package that was left...
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UC Berkeley receives anonymous email bomb threat
Update: Oct. 31, 11 p.m. UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor John Wilton said Wednesday, in a memo, that university police “completed searches of the main and Clark Kerr campuses, as well as UC properties...
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Channing, Piedmont blocked due to suspicious device
The bomb squad robot near Channing and Piedmont. Photo: Siciliana Trevino Update, June 5, 9 p.m.: Berkeley Police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats told the Daily Cal that the device turned out to be...
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Shattuck re-opened after suspicious package scare
Authorities used a bomb-detecting robot to determine whether a suspicious item on Telegraph Avenue was safe on Monday. Photo: Ted Friedman Update, 7 p.m. As per a notice released by the Berkeley Police...
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Berkeley Hills ‘suspicious package’ rendered safe
Image: Google Maps Authorities shut down roads and evacuated some residents in the area of the 100 block of Tunnel Road on Wednesday afternoon after a report of a suspicious package. Berkeley Police...
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Police: Suspicious bag in downtown Berkeley proved safe; Shattuck Avenue open...
Update, 3:05 p.m. Police report via Nixle that the suspicious bag was found to be safe. Shattuck Avenue has been re-opened. Original story: Berkeley Police were investigating a suspicious bag in the...
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North Berkeley package destroyed, likely a hoax
The suspicious package (on the left) in North Berkeley has been rendered safe. Photo: Devin Taylor-McDonald Update, July 29, 12 p.m. One local resident said she spotted this box July 19, prior to the...
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‘Suspicious package’ shuts down Public Safety Building
Berkeley Police Department. Photo: Emilie Raguso Berkeley authorities were on alert Wednesday afternoon after a suspicious package appeared at the Public Safety Building, which houses the police and...
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UCPD: Sproul ‘all clear’ as of 1:34 p.m.
1:34 p.m. "All clear given for Sproul Plaza and MLK/Student Union. Evacuation order lifted. Area can be re-entered." The post UCPD: Sproul ‘all clear’ as of 1:34 p.m. appeared first on Berkeleyside.
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Update: The Alameda re-opened, package contents deemed OK
Police were on the scene in North Berkeley to investigate a suspicious package, and The Alameda between Hopkins Street and Monterey Avenue was closed for some time. The post Update: The Alameda...
View ArticleBreaking: Cragmont School evacuated
The Berkeley bomb squad is on its way to Cragmont Elementary School to investigate a suspicious package. As a precaution, the school has been evacuated and nearby streets have been closed, according to...
View ArticleNo bomb at Cragmont school
Berkeley police have determined that the suspicious package found at Cragmont Elementary School was not a bomb; it was a lunchbox. But it did have wires coming out of it, according to Sgt. Mary...
View ArticleBomb threat closes several Berkeley streets Wednesday
Police blocked several streets and prevented people getting into their homes Wednesday night on the north side of the UC Berkeley campus after a man reported hearing a ticking in his van and said he...
View ArticleBomb squad tackles suspicious package at fire station
A bomb squad removed devices contained in a suspicious package that was left at Berkeley’s Fire Station 5 at 2680 Shattuck Avenue this afternoon. The section of Shattuck between Carleton and Ward...
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UC Berkeley receives anonymous email bomb threat
Update: Oct. 31, 11 p.m. UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor John Wilton said Wednesday, in a memo, that university police “completed searches of the main and Clark Kerr campuses, as well as UC properties...
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Channing, Piedmont blocked due to suspicious device
Update, June 5, 9 p.m.: Berkeley Police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats told the Daily Cal that the device turned out to be “some kind of prop used for a fraternity’s costume party.” The device was...
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Shattuck re-opened after suspicious package scare
Update, 7 p.m. As per a notice released by the Berkeley Police Department at 4:11 p.m., “The Bomb Squad examined the package, rendering it safe and determined it to be harmless. The investigation into...
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