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Tropicana Avenue reopens after suspicious item prompts evacuation

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 | 3:45 p.m.

Suspicious item

Metro Police evacuated apartments and shut down a portion of Tropicana Avenue as they investigated a suspicious item.

Metro spokesman Bill Cassell said police received a call shortly after 1 p.m. when an employee at an apartment complex in the 4800 block of Tropicana Avenue discovered a suspicious item.

Police responded and called the armor detail to investigate the item, Cassell said.

As a precaution, police shut down both directions of traffic on Tropicana Avenue from Nellis Boulevard to Mountain Vista Street. Traffic has since reopened, but other details about the item weren't available.

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