A California military base was locked down Friday night after a vehicle drove through the facility’s main gate without stopping.
CORONADO, Calif. — A California military base was locked down Friday night after a vehicle drove through the facility’s main gate without stopping, a military spokesman said.
Coronado Naval Base spokesman Kevin Dixon told KNSD-TV that base guards detained the driver after the “door runner” drove without stopping through the entrance of the Coronado Naval Air Station. North Island, part of the Coronado Naval Base.
Several patrol cars surrounded the entrance near 3rd Street and Alameda Boulevard in Coronado around 10:30 p.m., KNSD-TV reported,
Several doors at the air station near San Diego were closed as security personnel searched the facility, Dixon said.
A post on the Coronado Naval Base Facebook page on Saturday morning read: “The main gate of the North Island Naval Air Station is currently closed due to a security incident. Please stay away from the front door while security conducts their investigation.”
The Coronado Police Department was investigating the incident with military police, KNSD-TV reported.
Naval Air Station North Island is one of eight US military installations that make up Naval Base Coronado.
In February 2022, a motorist with bomb-making materials was found at the very gate of the base. The materials were not assembled into a device and the driver was detained for questioning, the base said at the time.
