Bomb Scare at Lieff Cabraser
Updated: A man wearing a white plastic device sparked a 11-floor evacuation today after he walked into the Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein law firm in San Francisco’s financial district.
The unidentified man was unhappy that he had been turned down in an effort to appear on the television game show The Price is Right, and walked into the law firm’s reception area wearing a white device with a blinking light that he described as a bomb the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“It was not immediately known whether the law firm has anything to do with the long-running game show, or whether the man had any other connections to the national law firm,” the newspaper writes.
An office administrator invited the man into a conference room and offered him coffee, waiting with him until police arrived, according to reports in the Recorder and Daily Journal (sub. req.).
Police took the man into custody, and are trying to determine what he was carrying, reports KTVU, a CNN affiliate. Meanwhile, hundreds of employees in business attire waited outside the 275 Battery Street building and the street was closed to traffic, as the police bomb squad was called in.
The station says both the bomb squad and the suspect remained in the building for at least two hours after the 12:40 p.m. incident.
However, the Chronicle says the situation was resolved by 1:30 p.m. and police were working to reopen the area by 2 p.m. or so.
Updated at 5:45 p.m. to include information from San Francisco Chronicle article. Updated on Oct. 14 to add information from the Recorder and Daily Journal.
