Metro News Release

For immediate release: December 11, 2009

Suspicious package reported at Pentagon City Metrorail station

Pentagon City and Crystal City Metrorail stations are closed during investigation

Two Metrorail stations on the Blue and Yellow lines are temporarily closed while Metro Transit Police investigate a suspicious package reported on the tracks at the Pentagon City Metrorail station around 9:50 a.m. today (Friday, Dec. 11).

The Pentagon City and Crystal City Metrorail stations remain closed as police investigate. Free Metrobus shuttles are running between the Braddock Road and Pentagon Metrorail stations to help riders travel around the incident.

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News release issued at 10:47 am, December 11, 2009.