Cardboard box prompts bomb squad response in Clovis

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A suspicious bundle that turned retired to beryllium a cardboard container prompted a weaponry squad effect astatine a Walmart successful Clovis, the Clovis Police Department said.

Officers accidental they received a telephone regarding a suspicious packager successful the parking batch of the Walmart astatine 323 W. Shaw Avenue successful Clovis astatine astir 6:45 p.m.

Police accidental they taped disconnected the country of the parking batch surrounding the item, and the Clovis Bomb Squad was called retired to investigate. Walmart was inactive unfastened and nary evacuations of immoderate gathering were done astatine the time, but officers were asking radical to enactment retired of the area.

The Clovis Police Department aboriginal confirmed the suspicious bundle was a cardboard box.