No Bomb Found After Threat Made To Temecula DMV

TEMECULA, CA — California Highway Patrol officers, along with their bomb sniffing dogs, cleared the scene Thursday after a threat was made to the Temecula DMV office.

CHP Officer Mike Lassig says the threat was reported around 10:15 a.m. by DMV staff who told police "they had a bomb threat issued" to them.

"CHP responded to the scene," Lassig said. "We immediately evacuated the building and escorted the employees and the clientele."

Authorities, who called in the "explosive sniffed dogs" did an immediate perimeter search, but did not find anything outside.

By 1 p.m., an interior search was completed, and there was nothing found there, Lassig said.

"Investigators checked the building and felt and confident that there was nothing dangerous in there," he told Patch.

The street, Diaz Road, where the DMV is located was blocked between Rancho Way and Via Montezuma while the investigation was underway. People at nearby businesses were briefly ordered to shelter in place, and the DMV employees holed up at a nearby building.