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Article: Bangor police bomb squad handle suspicious box at BIA
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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BANGOR - The main terminal of Bangor International Airport was
evacuated around 6 p.m. Tuesday after a suspicious white shoebox
bound with duct tape was discovered by an employee emptying a trash
can outside the building.
Bangor police responded to the scene and determined that the box
was in fact suspicious enough to call in the department's bomb squad,
but later determined that it contained only empty beer bottles
wrapped in paper.
The bomb squad's 4-foot-tall remote-control robot, which handles
potentially dangerous objects and explosives, was used initially to
approach the box, followed by Bangor police Lt. Mark Hathaway, who
was clad in a safety jump suit.
The investigation lasted close ...