Police investigated a phoned-in bomb threat this morning involving a downtown restaurant. No bomb was found.
On Friday, July 28,2023, at about 11:42 a.m., our 24-hour dispatch center received a call from a male subject reporting that he had placed a bomb inside of the Sancho’s Taqueria restaurant located at 491 Lytton Ave. Officers responded to the area immediately.
Police searched the entire premises with the assistance of a canine certified in explosives detection from the Stanford Department of Public Safety. No bomb was found. Police declared the scene safe at about 12:45 p.m.
Several businesses were briefly evacuated, and adjacent streets closed, until those businesses could be searched. Detectives are actively investigating the case. The suspect who called is an unknown adult male.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call our 24-hour dispatch center at (650) 329-2413. Anonymous tips can be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent via text message or voice mail to (650) 383-8984.
To read this release on the City's website, click here:
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/News-Articles/Police-Department/No-Bomb-Found-After-Threat-at-Downtown-Restaurant
