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MV bomb squad investigates ‘suspicious device’
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A passerby noticed the suspicious device on the Stevens Creek Trail near the East Middlefield Road overpass.
Members of the Mountain View Police Department bomb squad who investigated what a police spokesperson characterized as a “suspicious device” Saturday (Feb. 13) subsequently determined the item did not pose threat.
A passerby walking along the Stevens Creek Trail noticed the item near the East Middlefield Road overpass at approximately 9:45 a.m. Saturday and called the police department, public information officer Katie Nelson told the Town Crier in an email sent Tuesday. As a precautionary measure, police officers and rangers closed the popular recreation route between approximately 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and redirected eastbound and westbound Middlefield Road vehicle traffic between Moffett Boulevard and Easy Street during the investigation.
Santa Clara County bomb squad gives all-clear after investigation into suspicious device in Mountain View
By KTVU Digital article
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office bomb squad has given the all-clear after they were called to assist an investigation of a suspicious device spotted Saturday morning on the Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View, police said.
Authorities examined the object with a drone and temporarily closed the trail at East Middlefield Road to cyclists and pedestrians, police said in a social media post about 10:20 a.m.
Traffic in both directions on Middlefield was diverted between Moffett Boulevard and Easy Street for the duration of the investigation, but has since reopened.