{"id":419509,"date":"2026-10-05T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419509\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:56:09","slug":"bomb-squad-investigates-suitcase-at-fort-lauderdale-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419509\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad investigates suitcase at Fort Lauderdale mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791230168_581_police.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Fort Lauderdale Police Department\u2019s bomb squad investigated a suitcase that was left near Macy\u2019s at the Galleria Mall Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.\" alt=\"The Fort Lauderdale Police Department\u2019s bomb squad investigated a suitcase that was left near Macy\u2019s at the Galleria Mall Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Fort Lauderdale Police Department\u2019s bomb squad investigated a suitcase that was left near Macy\u2019s at the Galleria Mall Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police determined a suitcase that was left near the Macy\u2019s department store at the Galleria Mall did not contain an explosive device, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to check out the suitcase around noon. Officers closed the Macy\u2019s side of the parking garage while bomb squad officers examined the contents of the suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2:30 p.m., the department announced the suitcase did not contain anything dangerous, and the parking garage was reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791230169_21_profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Lauderdale Police Department\u2019s bomb squad investigated a suitcase that was left near Macy\u2019s at the Galleria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-419509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}