A suspicious package in San Clemente Saturday morning forced authorities to evacuate a nearby beach and briefly suspend Metrolink service in the area, sheriff’s officials said.
Deputies were called to the Dije Beach area of San Clemente just after 10 a.m., where they found “PVC pipe with attached end caps and wires protruding from it,” Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock told NBC4.
Officials evacuated the beach around the area, while train service along the nearby Metrolink tracks was suspended for over an hour.
After more than two hours at the scene, the Orange County bomb squad determined that the device was “not destructive” and actually appeared to resemble a homemade cellphone charger containing batteries and a charger cable, OC Sheriff’s Lt. John Roach said.
