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Amtrak Train Stopped, Searched In Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Operations are back to normal at the Amtrak station in Northwest Jacksonville.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's office said the Amtrak Silver Star train heading from Miami to New York was stopped in Jacksonville after passengers reports several men aboard the train were acting strangely. Passengers said they were rummaging through bags and moving from car to car.

The men were questioned by police and released.

The train left Jacksonville at about 2 a.m., but the cars that were being searched by bomb squad personnel and dogs were kept behind and are still at the station.

The FBI and Homeland Security joined the JSO in the investigation.

Amtrak is calling the situation "a false alarm."(snip)
http://www.news4jax.com/news/9787378/detail.html

Eyewitnesses say five people were the source of the concern.

"They were going in and out of their bags and they were never taking anything out of their bags," says Greg Pitts, a passenger who got off the train in Columbia. "They were putting their bags down and they would leave and walk off and then take them and put them other places on the train."
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=41586

Passengers told First Coast News 5 or 6 foreign men were acting suspiciously.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=64101

Takes quite a bit of digging to find the men were "foreign".

Testing, testing.