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Posted: September 9, 2010

AG's office evacuated after bomb threat call

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Authorities evacuated the North Carolina Attorney General's Office Thursday morning after someone called in a bomb threat.

North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety spokeswoman Patty McQuillan said the threat came in around 10 a.m., prompting authorities to empty the building and block nearby streets.

Edenton and Salisbury streets were blocked off for more than two hours. They reopened by 12:30 p.m.

The caller indicated that the bomb was set to go off within three hours of the 10 a.m. call, State Capitol Police Chief Scott Hunter said.

Hunter's officers used a bomb-sniffing dog to search the building, and he said they found no explosive devices.

The approximately 400 people who work in the building were allowed to go back inside at about 1 p.m.

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I find it very sad that you people sit there and pretend to be judge and jury. You obviously have no idea what the people in the AG's office do for you and your families. Sure there are people who don't do what is expected of them, but isn't that true in any work place? The people who did what they did in the SBI will most certainly have to face what they have coming to them. But to sit and judge State Employees as a whole? Who made you God? To sit there and put everybody in the same catagory? How would you feel if the very people you work so hard for did that to you? And as far as the bomb threat? What is if wasn't a hoax? What if your loved one worked in that building? Would you be so quick to run you mouth then? Would you call them on their cell phone and tell them to get back to work, that they were over-reacting? I think not. Take a minute and think before you speak. And by the way...Republicans, Democrats & Liberals work in that building.
kaw7577w
September 9, 2010 6:57 p.m.
State government just needs to find some more places to pi-- away more taxpayers dollars thru abuse waste fraud an mis-mangament. i know lets let a contract for a new d.o.j . building in downtown Raleigh. HA HA HA HA HA STATE GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE ENTIRE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IF YOU ASK ME
pbjbeach
September 9, 2010 5:23 p.m.
deadhead1971

from the looks of it it has got to have a dunegon somewhere on the property probably in the basement somewhere they just probably use it for all of the bad little state employees that they need to put in time out corners. for state governme has gotten to the point that it treats it's employees like a bunch of little children with all of their mangament oversight an micro-mangament these day employee surely arent treated as adult people out working every day an trying to do their jobs but cant for the political oversight an micro mangament that takes place in state government these days thank you
pbjbeach
September 9, 2010 5:20 p.m.
I bet the SBI Crime Lab already has evidence against any named suspect ready to go!
Click to view my profile tsquaring
September 9, 2010 5:04 p.m.
"they found no explosive devices"

they never do. these are like Silver alerts.
Click to view my profile Peace Love and Cold Meds
September 9, 2010 4:45 p.m.
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