Police Confirm Saddleback Hospital Bomb Threat to Be False, Searching for Provoker

An Orange County Sheriff's Department vehicle is parked at the Saddleback Station on Sept. 14, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.— Investigators from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department are still looking for the man responsible for making a fake bomb threat at Saddleback Medical Center in Laguna Hills the afternoon of Dec. 26.

Deputies responded to the hospital at around 3:40 p.m. after a man called 911 and claimed to be at the hospital with a bomb, prompting the sheriff’s and fire departments to set up a perimeter to clear the area.