MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have given the all clear after a bomb threat led to the evacuation of a synagogue in South Beach.
Miami Beach Police units responded to Beit Chabad South Beach and the Lubavitch Educational Center on Alton Road and 12th Street, at around 7:40 p.m., Friday.
Investigators said a rabbi flagged down an officer due to an envelope left in front of the building with handwritten lettering indicating a bomb threat and the words “safe house” on the other side.
The synagogue was evacuated as a precaution, and officers established a perimeter, shutting down Alton Road between 11th and 13th streets and diverting cars.
7News cameras captured bomb squad officers and K-9s entering the building to conduct a sweep of the synagogue and learning center.
Police have not specified whether or not they found anything inside the building or whether they have made an arrest.
The scene has since cleared, and Alton Road has reopened to traffic, and people have been allowed back into the synagogue.
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