Police responded to bomb threat at Arnold Schwarzenegger's home on Thanksgiving morning

Los Angeles cops responded to a spurious bomb menace at former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Brentwood mansion on Thanksgiving morning earlier than giving the all-clear.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Division was not in a position to affirm that the division responded to Schwarzenegger’s home however mentioned there was a name relating to a suspicious package deal round 10:30 a.m. Thursday on the identical block of the tony Brentwood neighborhood the place the film star and former Mr. Universe lives.

“It was decided there was no proof of any explosives,” LAPD Officer Kevin Terzes mentioned of the police response. The bomb menace was first reported by TMZ, which characterised it as a “swatting” incident, during which perpetrators provoke an emergency regulation enforcement response towards a sufferer beneath false pretenses.

Terzes was not in a position to present any details about who positioned the decision. Schwarzenegger’s spokesperson declined to remark.

Schwarzenegger was on the health club in the course of the incident, based on somebody with information of the scenario who was not licensed to talk publicly.

Schwarzenegger has lengthy lived in Brentwood and made headlines final yr when he took it upon himself to restore some potholes within the neighborhood — an motion that was not sanctioned by town, which countered that a minimum of one of many now-filled potholes was a service trench meant for use for permitted work by Southern California Gasoline Co.

He was elected governor in 2003 after the recall of then-Gov. Grey Davis, serving two phrases and at instances commuting by non-public jet between Brentwood and Sacremento.