Two bags found just outside Disneyland prompted a law enforcement response to the theme park on Monday, with officers converging near the Esplanade shuttle drop-off area close to Harbor Boulevard. One bag had exposed wires and marbles, while objects protruded from the other; a county bomb squad found no explosive threat.
According to the NBC Los Angeles report, two bags were located just outside the park in the Esplanade shuttle drop-off area near Harbor Boulevard. One had exposed wires and marbles, while objects protruded from the other. A county bomb squad found no explosive threat.
No further specifics have emerged about whether the incident was tied to an evacuation, road closures, or any other disruption at the resort. Authorities are continuing to investigate the matter.
A Pattern of False Alarms at the Resort
Suspicious-device calls near Disneyland and its surrounding Anaheim properties are not unheard of, and several past incidents ultimately turned out to be harmless. In February 2011, Downtown Disney was evacuated for roughly 90 minutes after a suspicious object was found on a walking bridge near the ESPN Zone and House of Blues, according to the Orange County Register. Anaheim police called in the Orange County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad, and about half of the shops and restaurants in Downtown Disney were evacuated around 11:30 a.m. before the object was identified as part of a geocaching site.
That wasn't an isolated scare. The same Register report cited an Anaheim police sergeant who said a suspicious device found at an Anaheim Plaza about a year earlier also turned out to be a geocaching unit. In yet another case, police said a suspicious device turned out to be nothing more than a piece of clay stuck on a pole, according to an archived report from ABC7; in that instance, Disneyland itself was not evacuated, with only the immediate area closed off.
For now, the core facts are that two bags were found just outside the park near the Esplanade and Harbor Boulevard. One had exposed wires and marbles, while objects protruded from the other; a county bomb squad found no explosive threat. Authorities say the investigation is ongoing.
