Courthouses in Waterbury, New Haven, New London, Danielson, Bridgeport, Hartford, and Rockville have been evacuated. Bomb squads are currently sweeping the courthouses.
Another thread said bomb threats.
Happens all the time...hope this is just another empty threat by an angry defendant.
Probably some fool who didn't want his day in court. Hope they catch the bastard and prosecute to the fullest.
Must be looking for activist Judges...
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Fox News giving good coverage of this.
WTIC AM has no details about this. I have to run out for a few hours, so I won't be able to post an update until later tonight...
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FoxNews reporting that calls went to several court houses, but only 5 closed; others remain open.
Did my brother in law just use the toilet?
Threat came by phone through the constituent services of the Governor's office. Not typical behavior for a terrorist, maybe a one-off whacko.
One courthouse would be somebody not wanting their day in court to be today.
Can police check the Governor's office phone records to see where the threat was called in from? Surely they must have some caller ID or received call log.
Come to think of it.... given the DU meltdown over that article, the authorities might want to look for a connection.
Ping!
Someone trying to get out of jury duty ... no doubt.
Well if the threat was ünspecified"how do they know to evacuate Connecticut couthouses???
HARTFORD (AP) -- A bomb threat prompted police to evacuate the state's court buildings Friday, abruptly interrupting trials while sending judges, lawyers and people with routine court business into the streets.
State police evacuated all of the state's 45 judicial court buildings and were searching them Friday.
"All we know right now is there was a bomb threat," said Wayne Sandford, deputy homeland security commissioner. "We're trying to get information on it as we speak."
The telephone threat was made about 10 a.m. on a constituent phone line answered by a staff member in Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office, gubernatorial spokesman David Dearborn said.
A counterterrorism official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said that the caller threatened to detonate bombs at 2 p.m. at state courthouses in New London, Danielson, Danbury, Middlebury, Manchester and New Britain.
Local and state police bomb squads were notified that state police were requesting a sweep of state courthouses.
Defense attorney William Gerace was in the Danielson Superior Court for pretrial conferences when it was evacuated.
"At first they told us we'd be back in momentarily," he said. "Then we heard a rumor there was a bomb threat. I started looking at my clients suspiciously, but they all swore they didn't do it. We all stood around outside in the cold for an hour and a half."
Connecticut's judicial branch has 83 facilities; 45 include courtrooms.
"They were very nonchalant, very smooth," said Madeline Hunt, who was in the Hartford Superior Court building attending her son's court appearance. "'OK,' they said. `Everyone's got to leave.' There was no panic, no nothing."
U.S. Marshal John Bardelli said bomb squads were sweeping federal courts in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford but that those courthouses remained open.
"A threat came in," he said. "I'm not sure the nature of the threat. It came in through the state police."
Sweeps of 15 Connecticut Courthouses showed NO SIGNS of bombs, according to a Connecticut Official - reported by Dow Jones