Update, 12:25 a.m. Police found “no threat” to public safety after an hours-long investigation into several pieces of luggage left on an Amtrak train in Berkeley on Wednesday evening.
Two women, a mother and daughter, were ultimately arrested on suspicion of train-related violations, authorities said. No further information was immediately available.
Trains were held in Berkeley for more than five hours while authorities looked into the abandoned property with the help of BPD’s bomb team and police dogs from Amtrak and BART.
As of about 7:30 p.m., an Amtrak spokesman said passengers from the affected train had left the area “with a combination of buses and ride-share vouchers.”…