{"id":194456,"date":"2026-02-26T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194456\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:07:06","slug":"suspicious-device-prompts-temporary-closure-on-metro-e-line-in-east-la-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194456\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious device prompts temporary closure on Metro E-Line in East LA \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspicious item found on a Metro E Line train on Wednesday evening prompted authorities to close Atlantic Station temporarily while investigators responded, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The item was reported at 7:32 p.m. at the station in the 5100 block of Pomona Boulevard, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Deputy Dominguez of the Sheriff\u2019s Information Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The report involved a suspicious device on a train at the station platform. The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Arson and Explosives Detail investigated the scene on Wednesday evening. The closure was lifted at 10:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear how deputies were notified, but authorities said the report did not come through a 911 call.<\/p>\n<p>Metro said the suspicious item was found on an E Line train at the Atlantic station and that, out of an abundance of caution, the agency notified the Sheriff\u2019s Department, which closed the station during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bus shuttles were operating between the Atlantic and Civic Center stations to accommodate riders.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspicious item found on a Metro E Line train on Wednesday evening prompted authorities to close Atlantic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17042,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-194456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-east-la","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}