Posted on 12/02/2005 9:42:57 AM PST by Ragnar Danneskjold
Developing story...
One courthouse would be somebody not wanting their day in court to be today.
Exactly, which is why I agree this is likely not a "terrorist" threat.
Gosh, those folks really are mad at LIEberman.
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.
I think it might be a prank by our ex-Guv/current inmate.
Ping!
Someone trying to get out of jury duty ... no doubt.
What do these towns have in common? Many of them have mayors who were ousted from office, mid-term, due to felony convictions! Maybe the ex-mayors/felons (Ganim, Santopietro, Giordano, etc) have formed a new terrorist organization....
Well if the threat was ünspecified"how do they know to evacuate Connecticut couthouses???
These towns are just the locations that are county based and have the court buildings. Nothing else.
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."
No, that's an unspeakable threat, not an unspecified threat.
Sweeps of 15 Connecticut Courthouses showed NO SIGNS of bombs, according to a Connecticut Official - reported by Dow Jones
Hmmm... You may be on to something - Was the call made from a prison?
"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.
Oh, that is rich. There's an attorney that really trusts his clients!
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