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Homes evacuated in bomb scare

By Harriet Ryan

Officers evacuated several homes Saturday night after investigators found what appeared to be a pipe bomb in the residence of a gang member, a police spokesman said.

Investigators performing a routine probation check at the home in the 300 block of Cummings Lane about 9:45 p.m. spotted a “small improvised explosive device” in a bedroom, said Sgt. David Marander of the Long Beach Police Department.

Officers cleared neighboring homes and summoned the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad, which “rendered the device safe” early Sunday morning, Marander said.

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Police arrested two people but did not disclose their names or information about possible criminal charges against them.

-- Harriet Ryan

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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