Georgia State Capitol Offices Evacuated - Suspicous Packages

December 26, 2007

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State employees are returning to work at the Georgia Capitol after suspicious packages discovered there prompted a partial evacuation this morning. Trooper Larry Schnall, a spokesman for the Capitol Police, says part of the Capitol was evacuated while a bomb detection unit investigated. The packages were removed and employees were allowed back to the building.

Buzz Weiss, spokesman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, says State Capitol Police and the Atlanta Police Department’s bomb squad were investigating material that was
discovered on the second floor of the Capitol.

Weiss says that parts of the governor’s office and the office of the secretary of state were evacuated.

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