Suspicious Tesla leads to evacuation of American Dream complex

🚨A Tesla was parked with the door open in an American Dream parking garage

🚨After a K-9 unit determined there may be explosives there, the complex was evacuated

🚨A search was conducted by two bomb squads

EAST RUTHERFORD — The American Dream entertainment and retail complex was evacuated Tuesday evening because a Tesla was parked suspiciously in the parking garage.

State Police Sgt. Jeffrey Lebron said the vehicle was found properly parked and unattended on the first floor of the C parking level with the driver’s door left open. After American Dream’s K-9 unit checked the vehicle and received a positive result for a possible explosive, an evacuation was ordered “out of an abundance of caution,” according to Lebron.

The parking lot is located outside The Rink ice rink.

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The second K-9 unit detects possible problems

Bergen County K-9 units and State Police K-9 units were called in and also received a “positive result.”

The State Police Bomb Unit and the Bergen County Bomb Unit were called in to inspect the vehicle. They found no evidence of a device and the complex was reopened, according to Lebron.

Lebron did not disclose whether the owner of the Tesla had been located or who parked the vehicle.

According to the stadium’s website, the parking lot at neighboring MetLife Stadium was open Tuesday night for fans of singer Travis Scott to purchase tour merchandise. Scott appears at MetLife on Wednesday evening.

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