FBI, USPS to investigate suspicious envelope at Temple Square [Salt Lake City]

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[rycharn]

The FBI and US Postal Service inspectors are on their way to investigate the suspicious envelope found at Temple Square containing an unknown white powder.

The letter was mailed to the temple and was opened inside an office in the entrance area to the Salt Lake Temple. That is in an area open to the public.

They have since placed the letter into a black plastic bag.

Both Salt Lake City police and fire departments are on the scene and have closed off the area, including eastbound lanes of North Temple between State Street and Main Street.

They did not take this incident to an elevated threat level because they feel they had the situation contained.

They did not evacuate the temple, but are not allowing anybody inside.

Scott Freitag of the Salt Lake City Fire Department says someone in the office opened the envelope, saw the powder and immediately called the fire department.

"We don't have any indication there's any sort of threat with it," Freitag says. "So we're just going to go in now. Our Hazmat team will go in and take a look at it, see if they can make any determination of what it is by looking at it. Most likely it will have to be tested."

[mvpel]

A guy in Ann Arbor, who had the audacity to display a McCain sign on his lawn in that leftist bastion, was mailed a package of dog poop.

However, the sender mailed it from a post office, and paid with a credit card.

I think that merits at least an honorable mention in the “Stupid Criminals” list, don’t you?