Police: All safe after reports of ‘suspicious’ item at East EP station

EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — El Paso Police have reopened their Pebble Hills Regional Command Center on Monday evening, Nov. 18 after an earlier report of a "suspicious item" in the station's parking lot.

The Police Bomb Squad responded to the police station at 10780 Pebble Hills Blvd. and investigated the incident. The "suspicious item" was determined not to be suspicious after all.

Police did not say what exactly the item turned out to be.

The station is now back open to the public.

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