MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The "package," which had a clock on top of it, was plugged into an electrical socket at the Gold Line light rail station in Highland Park, in northeast Los Angeles.
GOLD LINE: Highland Pk Sta CLOSED due to police activity. Buses replace trains btwn Southwest Museum-South Pasadena pic.twitter.com/7VigMWZDdz
— Metro (@metrolosangeles) 31 March 2016
"We evacuated the platform and rerouted the trains," Maradiaga said on Wednesday as quoted by The Los Angeles Times.
According to Maradiaga, who found the package, a bomb squad was sent to the station.