Columbus deals with 6 suspect packages
Columbus police and bomb squad officers responded to six seperate reports of suspicious packages on Thursday. Prompting Authorities to scan and detonate some of the packages before determining each instance was not a threat. With unattended packages, we sometimes want to jump to the conclusion that these are of a suspicious nature. Police from 4:30 p.m. until around 9:30 p.m. were kept busy with calls involving unattended items stemming from brief cases and wrapped packages left unattended in various places. In each instances police closed off the streets snarling rush hour traffick in the city. Authorities were looking into the cases to see if any were linked to each other. But did not believe any was intended as a terrorist threat. Columbus police Lt. Rod Wittich stated. Mayor Coleman said,"We're a city that is prepared and has been tested."