A “suspicious package” was found in front of the Broward County Sheriff Office Pembroke Park substation office along West Hallandale Beach Boulevard early Monday. It turned out to be food delivery, a spokeswoman confirmed.
Screenshot of WSVN video
Contactless food delivery works pretty well in a pandemic. A driver drops your platter at the door without you having to get face-to-face close.
But that might not be the safest option at a sheriff’s office.
On Monday morning, someone’s breakfast turned out to be a bomb scare.
The Broward County Sheriff Office’s bomb squad was called out to BSO’s Pembroke Park substation office at 3201 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd. to investigate a “suspicious package” that was left in front of the door, according to a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Helicopter video taken by WSVN shows the package wrapped in a white takeout bag in front of the station’s door, a BSO robot that was being used to investigate the package near it. BSO cruisers were also seen blocking the streets near the substation. The SWAT team was also in the area, according to WSVN.
Investigators later determined that the package was more delicious than dangerous. It was a food delivery, a spokeswoman confirmed.
This story was originally published August 3, 2020 at 10:21 AM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
