Suspicious packages at DC-area military bases
NBC4 reports that suspicious packages were discovered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fort McNair, DC, and at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC. All of the packages were rendered safe by EOD personnel and no one was injured.
Suspicious packages were sent to two sites at Fort Belvoir in Virginia Monday afternoon: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and another defense university. One contained liquid in a vial and a circuit board, the law enforcement official said. It also was rendered safe.
Similar suspicious packages were found at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C., a CIA mail processing facility, a White House mail processing facility and Dahlgren Naval Air Station in Virginia, NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reported. Those were all cleared as well.
It’s not clear if any of the packages was an actual working explosive device that could have been detonated.
Some included rambling letters and official described as disturbing.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Terror War
GMA reported a package of black powder hooked somehow to a GPS in one of them.
I thought that douchetool from MA was still in lockup.
Maybe they should make sending bombs and other hazardous materials through the mail ille…oh, right.
Practice run. Hmmmm.
That was my first thought. Either that or some dumbass with too much time on his hands.
While I know certain things have to be disclosed to the public, I wish we could keep these stories completely quiet. No tip to the dickhead that sent them that he had any impact at all. Just silence. It takes the fangs out of the bite in a lot of situations like this.
Good job to the Techs suiting up and making the long, lonely walk.
How does one render a pkg safe if it was a dummy in the first place?
Blow it up, of course. EOD loves doing that.
We had a suspicious package reported in the DODDS school at Camp Zama back in the early 90s. I was the Area Support Group Director of Security, Plans, and Operations (S3) and in charge of the Emergency Operations Center … so I went out to be with the on-scene commander after setting up the EOC.
EOD sent in it’s robot, secured the suspicious package, then took it out to a clear area and blew it with a water charge.
Papers went flying everywhere …. it was like confetti at a parade. A real cool-factor … but kind of disappointing as we wanted to see a bang.
What happened: a school teacher left his briefcase in the gym locker room; nobody knew who left it; the teacher was on a few days vacation and forgot his briefcase in his hurry to get out of town!
The non-event turned out to be a good training exercise.
Appropriate to your situation, I used this at Benning while attending ending a demo of live Claymore mines. One misfired:
(Loudly, in my best “Marvin the Martian” voice)
“Where’s the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth-shattering Kaboom.”
After entry or disruption it’s then considered nonexplosive or “dummy”
Many years ago, I helped my neighbor who was on the Denver bomb squad, make a remote device to snip wires! He said it saved his ass many times! He used to take me with him on calls sometimes. What a great man he was, Fred Stevenson. I was best friends in high school with his son Rick. Sadly we just lost him last year as well. He was also a retired Denver cop. Rest in Peace Fred and Rick, you deserve your rest now.
Hey WW, great story and sorry for your loss. Nice to know there’s another Colorado type on here.
Stupid reporters. It’s Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) not “Naval Air Station.” Mmmmmm, Rail Guns.
Hey, don’t tell them they’re wrong. The more wrong they are, the more run we can have with them.
“run” was supposed to be ‘fun’. LEtters mattER!!
The CIA secret squirrels have their own mail facility? Really? I did not know that!
I will accordingly employ that in my current secret squirrel story, because there’s no place else to store all those nasty scary black rifles disguised as kites.
How come the DofD people don’t use the Navy’s robot EOD thingies? I saw the Bomb Patrol guys using one. I kept referring to it as Splinky and/or Insipid, depending on which episode I was watching. I wouldn’t mind having one myself, for getting stuff off the bottom shelves at the grocery store. Bending is hard. 🙁
remember the days when one could buy all sorts of mail order chemicals through the popular science/pop mechanix magazines.
We must ban high-capacity FedEx packages!
‘Person arrested in connection to suspicious packages found at DC-area military bases’
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/27/person-arrested-in-connection-to-suspicious-packages-found-at-dc-area-military-bases.html
‘A person was arrested Tuesday in connection with the series of packages containing explosive materials found at military bases in the greater Washington, D.C., area, a law enforcement official told Fox News.
Authorities said earlier Tuesday they were honing in on a suspect in the case. No possible motive was immediately disclosed.
[…].’
Right as I was shutting my truck off, FOX Radio reported the suspect was arrested here somewhere in Washington State.
No doubt loud cheering in sleazy Seattle
as there would be here in putrid Portland…….
Actually, all along the western part of the west coast