Bomb scare locks down Milpitas jail

by Susie Fowkes , October 17, 2011

A bomb scare Friday morning at one of Santa Clara County’s jail facilities turned out to be nothing, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.

Just before 8 a.m. that morning, deputies were called to the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas after a jail employee spotted a suspicious package sitting next to a fuel tank on the prison campus.

Elmwood officials said the jail was locked down and evacuated while the bomb squad came out to look at the black canvas computer bag that had been left unattended.

Investigation revealed that the bag, in fact, belonged to the jail and the lockdown was lifted, jail officials explained.

No one was injured and employees were allowed to return to work within two hours of the finding.

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Susie Fowkes

Susie Dryden Fowkes was born and raised in the Central Coast city of Santa Cruz and studied journalism at San Francisco State University. She has lived in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade, where she has covered Bay Area news for both radio and print media. She currently resides in San Jose with her traffic reporter husband and beagle-lab mix Kona.