Scare at the Sub Base
GROTON -- Police and fire units have set up a perimeter at the Groton Sub Base. Bomb-sniffing dogs have been also called out to the scene.
Navy authorities are providing very limited information as to what happened Monday morning.
Crystal Lake Avenue and the military highway road along the river have been blocked off by local police.
This provides access to Gate #1 where the incident involving a truck took place.
A spokesperson for the sub base tells Eyewitness news that at 6:30 a.m. Monday a Navy dog trained to sniff for explosives sensed something on a truck attempting to enter Gate #1. That's the gate near the Nautilus Museum.
The Navy immediatly shut down the base. Groton police cordoned off Crystal Lake Ave and Military Highway. Around mid morning the other gates north on Route 12 were opened.
Federal agencies are on site as is the Navy bomb squad. The Navy is not saying if anything was actually discovered or removed.
The other possibility is that this could be a drill. But they are not indicating that at this time.
We'll have more on this story on Eyewitness News starting at 5.
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Georgia wanna bet MsM doesn't even uppdate this with anything but blubber?
Wow, interesting story about the possible sub-base probe.
Which just reminded me....
Back in late 2000, after the Cole bombing, I watched a news story, I think on Fox, where the reporter and a camera man took a small fishing boat and penetrated Navy bases on the Eastern Seabord from sea, and also with cars on land, including that base in the story today. It was interesting how close they got, in one scene, the reporter is riding in the back of the boat and reaching out, slapping the tails of subs at dock as they float by. In another, they enter with a truck through the main gate with a weak story, and park it in a spot marked "reserved for captain", right next to a huge boat full of artillery, they get out and leave the truck, and enter a rec. center and into a computer/internet room in the center, filming the whole time and no one confronted them!
Anybody else ever see that report? I can't seem to find any links to it on the Net. It was interesting video.