By 10 p.m. Wednesday night RCMP had cleared the scene at Best Buy in Lloydminster. The Alberta RCMP Explosive Disposal Unit was called out shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after Lloydminster RCMP, while conducting a search of a vehicle in the Best Buy parking lot in an unrelated investigation, located a potential explosive device.

The RCMP said in a news release that out of an abundance of caution they contained the area and called in the Explosive Disposal Unit.

The Alberta RCMP Explosive Disposal Unit determined the device as being non-hazardous.