UPDATE 8:30 P.M.:

Sheriff's officials tell Patch that they've given the "all clear" at the Promenade Mall in Temecula after discovering the source of a "suspicious package": a box of shoes. "It was a shoe box with some shoes," Riverside County Sheriff's Spokesman Deputy Albert Martinez said in an email to Patch Friday evening.

The sheriff's bomb squad was sent to the shopping center around 2:30 p.m., after mall security reported finding a "suspicious package," according to Martinez. That's when the entire mall was ordered evacuated as a precaution. The department sent a robot to investigate the package, and eventually discovered that it was harmless.

Martinez said the sheriff's department began to clear the scene around 4:30 p.m. ORIGINAL STORY AS FOLLOWS:

Sheriff's officials Friday afternoon are investigating a "suspicious package" that was discovered at the Promenade Mall in Temecula, Patch is told.

"There was a suspicious package that was located and our hazardous device team is there investigating," Riverside County Sheriff's Spokesman Deputy Albert Martinez told Patch by telephone.

The mall, located off Winchester Road near the I-15, is being completely evacuated, according to mall officials. The object was found around 2:30 p.m. Martinez said he didn't have any more specifics on the package that was found, or where in the building it was located, but that he believes mall security found it.