Men Abandon Car At Border, Flee To US – Bomb Squad Called

Both ends of the Ferry Point Bridge from St. Stephen to Calais, Maine were apparently closed shortly after 6 p.m. last night and the RCMP bomb squad was called to stand by as American authorities questioned five people who attempted to enter the United States on foot  after abandoning their vehicle.

Update: The incident began when five men left a vehicle on the Canadian side of the border, walked across the Ferry Point Bridge and attempted to enter the United States, confirmed Ted Woo, spokesman for the U.S. Office of Homeland Security.

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No one was arrested by U.S. authorities, Woo said, and the men were returned to Canada.

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Woo said he was scrambling Monday to counteract “wild rumors” and dozens of telephone calls from people who believed that the car contained a bomb and that the men were from Afghanistan.

He said the men were not from Afghanistan, but he said U.S. privacy laws prevented him from providing details about their citizenship status or identification.

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Border agencies in neither Canada nor the United States intend to charge the five people with anything, Gillmore and Woo said.

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From The Telegraph Journal
The five people who attempted to cross into the United States are not Canadians and are possibly illegal immigrants – possibly from Afghanistan, RCMP J Division media relations officer Sgt. Claude Tremblay said late Sunday night from Fredericton.

“The reason we closed the bridge is because they left their vehicle and went on foot,” Tremblay said.

The RCMP spokesman declined to say precisely where the five people parked the vehicle, but admitted that a person could draw a logical conclusion from the location of the police roadblocks at either end of the bridge.

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He did not know Sunday night if the American authorities would return the five people to Canada or deal with them in the United States. For that reason he could not say whether to expect court appearances in St. Stephen today.

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Suspicious Packages Discovered in Minnesota Town

Police in Princeton, Minnesota are investigating three suspicious packages found around town early Wednesday. An official told FOX News that the devices were located near a school, a post office and a public utility center.

Princeton, Minn. is located about 50 miles north of Minneapolis.

Later in the evening The Union Eagle said sources had confirmed that in addition to the three mysterious packages, five additional items described as “McGuyver bombs” were discovered around the city. The objects were judged to not be dangerous.They were collected and delivered to law enforcement for further examination.

The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and several local law enforcement agencies are assisting in the investigation.

Bomb Squad Investigates Suspicious Suitcases

The Holiday Inn in Port St. Lucie was evacuated Thursday night as the St. Lucie bomb squad investigated suspicious suitcases a guest had brought there.

While information was sketchy, officials said the guest, possibly in his 50s, checked into the hotel at the northeast corner of U.S. 1 and Jennings Road about 5 p.m. A few minutes later, the guest called 911 to say he had respiratory problems, possibly radiation poisoning.

The guest was taken to St. Lucie Medical Center in Port St. Lucie to be checked out.

An initial sweep of the guest’s black, briefcase-type bag indicated there could be something there, although officials said a second sweep cleared both the bag and the man of any radiation. Because of the conflicting information, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was called into check out the bag.

The bomb squad’s robotic device was seen carrying something from the hotel. Shortly after 9 p.m., officials said the bomb squad was going back in for a second bag.

At 10 p.m., the bomb squad blew up one of the bags; officials did not say what they were going to do with the second bag. Officials later said one of the bags contained a cell phone charger and papers.

A Hazmat team from St. Lucie County Fire Division was brought in to clean up the room after th

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Bomb Squad Detonates Devices In West Chester PA. Garage

Bomb squad officers in West Chester detonated three suspicious devices discovered inside a borough parking garage Monday morning, police said.

At about 7:45 a.m., a parking attendant at the Mosteller Garage at 401 E. Gay St. called police after finding two packages and a third unidentified item on the property, police said.

In early reports, police described the third item as a pipe containing visible wires, circuitry and an unidentified liquid, police said. Read more

Police Detonate Suspicious Package – Denver

A loud bang was heard along the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver this evening after police found and detonated a suspicious package near Union Station.

A spokesman for the Joint Information Center said there were no injuries. It was not immediately clear what the package contained before police used explosives to “render it safe,” in the spokesman’s words.

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