Five kids and one adult were detained this week after sheriff's deputies caught them with an acid bomb inside Coast Hills Community Church, Sgt. D.J. Haldeman said. No one was hurt.
Haldeman said the incident was probably a prank, and there is "no reason to think they were trying to damage the building."
At 12:50 a.m. Thursday, deputies were called to the church after someone heard a small, noisy crowd of young people in the parking lot "throwing some type of water bomb."
By 2:30 a.m., the Sheriff's Department bomb squad had detonated the improvised explosive device, Haldeman said.
Charges against those involved are still pending, he said.
In April, Huntington Beach police responded to two acid bomb explosions on PCH.
In 2012, a Rossmoor family was targeted by an acid bomb prank that may have been racially motivated.
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