CSUN Bomb Threat: Police issues emergency, but no bomb found

A male student’s fear that his car has been rigged with a bomb, spun off an emergency at Cal State Northridge campus on Friday afternoon. The Police cordoned off a part of the campus, alerted the people at the university through a mass communication emergency system and sent a Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad to the campus.

But the reports inform that the fears have been groundless and no ‘suspicious item’ has been recovered from the car.

Vance Peterson, vice president of university advancement, has informed that the student is related to a gang and he apprehended retaliation from the rival gang in the form of a bomb-plant. The suspected attack was not on the university.

The area covering the pre-school and a lab school near the B5 parking structure and B6 lot off Plummer Street fell under the emergency.

Southern California Public Radio has this e-mail, sent by police to the faculty, staff and students, posted

.On their website- “Police and emergency response personnel are responding to the scene of a bomb threat on campus as of noon today, February 5, 2010. Stay clear of the area north of the B5 parking structure to include the B6 structure and the PPM (Physical Plant Management) area.”
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