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Police are investigating a bomb threat to a business on the 3200 block of Wilshire Blvd.
According to SMPD, a call came into dispatch at about 3:45 p.m. threatening a bomb at the H&R Block office. Employees self evacuated the site and officers closed the area while they search the building.
The area was reopened at about 6:15 p.m.
Matthew Hall has a Masters Degree in International Journalism from City University in London and has been Editor-in-Chief of SMDP since 2014. Prior to working at SMDP he managed a chain of weekly papers... More by Matthew Hall
