This report will be updated as more information comes in. Atlanta News First reported around 10 a.m. Another suspicious package was sent to CNN the third mailed to the network in a week and intercepted at an Atlanta post office, officials.
Out of an abundance of caution, Gates 1, 2 and 3 were temporarily closed by the Atlanta Police Department while the police department, K-9 units and Arena security worked to clear the area and investigate the contents of the package. The Piedmont West medical building was given the all-clear after a suspicious package was found Wednesday morning, prompting an evacuation. By Pete Williams, Jonathan Dienst and David K.
He faces five federal charges.Īnother suspicious package addressed to CNN has been intercepted. A suspicious package was found outside Gate 2 of State Fame Arena, read a statement posted to Twitter. One of those bombs was mailed to CNN offices in New York.Ĭesar Sayoc, 56, was arrested Friday in Florida after investigators said they linked him to the packages through fingerprint and DNA evidence.
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The FBI has confirmed that the package recovered at the Atlanta facility was addressed to CNN.ĬNN President Jeff Zucker said all mail to CNN has been screened offsite since last week, when a series of package bombs began appearing around the country. The suspicious item, which was not identified, was found Thursday in the airport's domestic terminal. Postal Inspection Service were investigating on the street just outside the postal facility’s parking lot. NEW YORK - Emergency personnel responded after a package with suspicious white powder was delivered to the mail room for the New York City building housing the Manhattan District Attorneys office. An Atlanta Police Department bomb squad unit was parked at the entrance to the parking lot.įederal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. MIAMI (AP) The Latest on the series of package bombs sent to media offices and prominent people seen as critical of President Donald Trump (all times local): 4 p.m. Atlanta police have reopened several streets as local and federal police probe a suspicious package found at a postal facility near the downtown area.Īt noon Monday, a robot was being maneuvered outside the facility and about 100 feet from a row of U.S. Jewell warned Georgia police and began clearing the Centennial Olympic Park area around the suspicious package.
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