The Santa Monica pier and Pacific Park amusement park were shut down Monday afternoon after a man holding a bag hopped onto its iconic Ferris wheel and declared that he was holding a bomb.

The company that runs Pacific Park on Santa ... general operations. Santa Monica Amusements LLC announced the sale of the famous attraction known for its colorful Ferris Wheel for an undisclosed ...

The Pacific Park Earth Hour event will be streamed live on its website. The article Why Santa Monica Pier's Ferris Wheel Will Go Dark This Week appeared first on Santa Monica Patch.

Santa Monica’s iconic Ferris wheel has a new owner. On Thursday, Santa Monica Amusements, the operator of Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, announced it had been sold to an investment firm ...

Authorities closed Santa Monica Pier ... Park. In an interview with The Times before the man was taken into custody, Lt. Erika Aklufi said officers were attempting to extract riders from the ...

Evacuations were ordered Monday afternoon after a man claiming to be armed with a bomb climbed the ferris wheel at the Santa Monica ... evacuating Pacific Park and the Pier and our Crisis ...

Pacific Park ... pier along with his management team. Klocke calls the new ownership “a milestone moment” for the attraction, which features 12 rides, including a solar-powered ferris wheel ...

Officers were dispatched about 2:40 p.m. to the pier, according to a watch commander at the Santa Monica Police ... at the man who scaled the Ferris wheel at Pacific Park, prompting an evacuation.

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