Metro Blue Line Wardlow Station in Long Beach reopened after suspicious device found

The Metro Blue Line Wardlow Station closed for close to two hours Thursday afteoon after a maintenance employee discovered a suspicious device.

The employee was servicing bicycle lockers around 3:15 p.m. when he found the device, said Ramon Montenegro, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s Transit Policing Division. A sheriff’s arson-explosives K-9 was requested and authorities determined that the object was suspicious enough to close the station.

The station was closed until 4:51 p.m., Montenegro said.

Residual delays in train service were expected through 5:30 p.m., according to Metro.

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