Ohio - Suspicious Packages Cause Evacuation of Putnam County Courthouse
December 21, 2007
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The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is reviewing surveillance film at the county courthouse after two suspicious packages were found underneath a second-floor Christmas tree today.
The wrapped gifts, which were later found to contain Christmas lights from Wal-mart, raised officials’ suspicions because no one knew where they came from and because they were marked “to the second floor courthouse employees” with the note “please open,” said Sheriff James Beutler.
The courthouse was briefly evacuated while the Lima-Allen County bomb squad was called in to investigate. An x-ray revealed electronic wiring inside both packages, Sheriff Beutler said, and the packages were taken to the county fairgrounds and exploded.
He said it appeared that whoever left the packages knew they would create alarm.
“They knew we would treat it suspiciously. They knew by x-raying what we would see,” he said. “They got what they were looking to do as most terrorists do.”
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