{"id":881750,"date":"2026-06-21T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/881750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:05:55","slug":"car-found-with-nazi-flag-canister-near-site-of-may-mosque-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/881750\/","title":{"rendered":"Car found with Nazi flag, canister near site of May mosque attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crime<\/a>Police behind crime scene tape in Clairemont Mesa East investigate a sedan after officers discovered a suspicious device and a Nazi flag inside on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas Murphy\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n

A month after two teens killed three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego<\/a>, police on Thursday detained a motorist near the mosque in a car that held a Nazi flag and a suspicious-looking canister.<\/p>\n

San Diego police<\/a> officers on site at the Eckstrom Avenue religious center took note of the dark sedan and its contents at about 11:45 a.m., Lt. Cesar Jimenez said. They called in to police headquarters, and dispatchers notified other patrol units in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

Officers found the vehicle near the 4300 block of Derrick Drive, about a mile northwest of the mosque, pulled it over and detained the driver for questioning, Jimenez said.<\/p>\n

A bomb squad was called in to determine the nature of the unidentified canister and any other potentially dangerous objects or substances in the car. The process of completing a sweep of the vehicle continued in the late afternoon, the lieutenant said. A bomb disposal bot was on standby.<\/p>\n

Police notified the local FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force about the incident, Jimenez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, there is no active threat to the Islamic Center of San Diego,\u201d the lieutenant said. \u201cThe investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities evacuated several nearby businesses, while residents of a nearby apartment complex were asked to shelter in place. Those precautionary measures have been lifted, but nearby streets remained cordoned off for hours.<\/p>\n

The May 18 hate crime at the city\u2019s largest mosque claimed the lives of three people, an on-duty security guard credited with warning those inside the mosque of the attack and two other members of the center\u2019s congregation.<\/p>\n

The camouflage-clad suspected killers, an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy, fled the scene and soon turned their guns on themselves. Both died.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>A police car behind crime scene tape with a robot on scene due to the discovery of a suspicious device inside a vehicle on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas Murphy\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police behind crime scene tape in Clairemont Mesa East investigate a sedan after officers discovered a suspicious device…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":881751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,24538,6397,328418,327911,3549,22509,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-881750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-clairemont-mesa","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-islamic-center-attack","tag-islamic-center-of-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116785656792951905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}