A backpack left inside an Aurora business during an attempted armed robbery was not a bomb, police said.
The attempted robbery happened at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ace Cash Express, 11703 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora police said.
A man walked into the store and placed a backpack on a counter, saying it was a bomb. The man demanded money, the clerk ducked behind a counter and the robber pulled a pistol from his waistband, firing two shots before fleeing.
No one was injured.
Responding to the incident the Adams County Bomb Squad blasted the backpack, which contained wires and other materials to make it appear explosive, with water.
Investigators have determined that items in the pack could not have detonated and it was a ruse.
“It wasn’t a bomb,” said Sgt. Casidee Carlson, an Aurora Police Department spokeswoman. “It’s nothing that would have gone off.”
The suspect remains at large.
Police described him as a black man in his early 20s, about 6 feet tall and 165 pounds with a thin build. At the time of the incident he was wearing a gray shirt, sunglasses and a black scarf over his face.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
