Deputies OK After Cyanide Scare In Ponte Vedra, Florida
May 2, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Two St. Johns County deputies and a woman have been released from a hospital after what authorities are calling a scare with cyanide.
Sergeant Chuck Mulligan says deputies confronted a group in a parking lot in Ponte Vedra on Thursday night. One of the men said he had an open container with cyanide and was planning to use it.
Mulligan says the area was decontaminated and the container was secured by another deputy wearing protective gear. He says preliminary results indicate the substance was the chemical sodium cyanide.
The man remains in the hospital for further observation.
