SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — An explosive device that authorities said was intentionally set has injured two people at a California courthouse on Wednesday, authorities said. One person of interest was detained following the blast reported shortly after 8:45 a.
m. at the Santa Maria Courthouse in Santa Maria, sheriff’s officials said. The small city of about 110,000 people in Santa Barbara County is in California’s central coast region.
“We have two reports of non-life-threatening injuries. One person of interest detained immediately. Scene remains active.
Please continue to avoid the area,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Public Information Officer Raquel Zick said on the social platform X. Zick later said the person detained was a man and the blast came from “an intentionally set” explosive device. Consider supporting HuffPost starting at $2 to help us provide free, quality journalism that puts people first.
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