Bomb Scare Blocks Roads In Downtown Modesto

MODESTO (CBS13) - The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department bomb squad has analyzed a device that raised suspicions in Modesto today and determined it was not an explosive.

There were some tense moments near the Transit Center just after 9:14 a.m. when someone found what they called a "device", a piece of 4-inch pipe with its ends capped, sitting near an electrical box along 9th and J Streets, according to a Modesto Police Department statement.

Members of the county's bomb squad went the scene and used an x-ray scan to determine the contents of the pipe were not explosive.

A portion of the Transit Center was placed on lockdown during the event and resulted in the temporary closure of roads in the area and the rerouting of buses leaving the center.

The roads were expected to reopen around 11 a.m.