Posted on 06/23/2003 5:26:33 AM PDT by TomGuy
Authorities in California were notified to be on the lookout for a suspicious truck possibly carrying explosives. Truck may have been stopped in Los Angeles area.
Developing.....
from San Bernadino Sun.com
Crime and Public Safety
By Staff Reports
SAN BERNARDINO: Call triggers CHP search for big rig
The California Highway Patrol continued searching Sunday for a dark green tractor-trailer supposedly filled with explosives and on its way to the Burbank Airport.
The lookout was based on an anonymous call made to the CHP's Barstow office Saturday afternoon, said Officer Brian Joy of the CHP's Los Angeles communications center.
Based on the call, Joy said, the green trailer is about 50 feet long and is being pulled by a tractor-truck of unknown color. According to the caller, the tractor-trailer is traveling from Texas and is expected to be in Burbank this morning, Joy said.
Other than that, information was scarce, Joy said.
"We have no idea of the validity of this,' he said.
Joy could not verify or dispute reports that there is a faded logo beneath the trailer's paint reading "picture perfect, pictures are fine.''
What's weird about this story is the Barstow connection....that town is on I-15 and 40; truckers coming from Texas would not use either of those Interstates.
CHP issued Be On the Look Out for 50 foot trailer heading for Burbank Airport.
police scanner
Posted on 06/23/2003 12:55 AM CDT by BurbankKarl
CHP is playing a BOLO for a 50 foot tractor trailer combination, supposedly filled with explosives and heading for Burbank Airport Monday morning.
Supposedly a phone call at a pay phone in Texas gave them this information....probably a hoax, but information being repeated hourly over the police bands. Have seen a mention on KTLA 10 o clock news in LA also.
There is a search point set up at the Arizona / CA border with CHP and Arizona Troopers searching large SUVs and trucks.
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities on Monday investigated a suspicious big-rig parked near the Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport, closing one runway and prohibiting passenger trains from stopping at the airport. The big-rig was on San Fernando Road on the city border with Los Angeles near the northeast section of the airport. "We are investigating possible explosives on a parked tractor-trailer near the Burbank airport," said a Los Angeles police officer who said he was too busy to give his name.
Authorities have been on alert for a big-rig since the California Highway Patrol in Barstow received an anonymous telephone call Sunday afternoon, CHP Officer Brian Joy said Sunday. The man told authorities that a big-rig towing a 50-foot green trailer was on its way to the Burbank airport and would probably arrive sometime Monday.
The caller was in an unknown location in Texas. He said he used to work with the driver of the big-rig and that the motive "had to do with the war on terrorism," CHP Commissioner Spike Helmick said Sunday.
The north-south runway closure did not stop air traffic, which was diverted to the east-west runway. It was unclear how train passengers would continue their travel into Los Angeles.
Not so fast there, Gonzales. It depends upon WHERE in Tejas the truck came from. I-40 passes through the Tejas panhandle. I-15, OTOH, is completely off base, running as it does northward from San Diego thru Vegas...
Michael
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