![]() The package was found around 8:30 a.m., and about 25 employees inside the office, which processes all mail for San Francisco and San Mateo County, were evacuated, Postal Service spokesman Augustine Ruiz said.Ĭalifornia postal workers were on high alert for suspicious packages after the packages on the east coast were found earlier this week, Ruiz said. Authorities said that it was unclear whether the bombs could have exploded on their own but that they did contain potentially explosive material.Ĭesar Sayoc, the suspect in the bombing case (Broward County Sheriff’s Office via AP) In Burlingame, federal and local explosives technicians converged on the sprawling mail facility at 1625 Rollins Road to remove the package addressed to Steyer, a former hedge fund chief who’s spent millions of dollars advocating for Trump’s impeachment. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters. Sayoc was tracked down after a “latent fingerprint” was found on a package sent to Rep. A Florida man, Cesar Sayoc, was arrested Friday in connection with those bombs. It’s unclear whether the packages were related to the terrifying string of explosives sent to news organizations and prominent critics of President Trump like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden this week. Kamala Harris that was discovered by a postal employee in Sacramento and another package addressed to Democratic donor Tom Steyer that was found at a post office in Burlingame. Law enforcement authorities rushed to investigate a suspicious packages addressed to Sen. ![]() ![]() on Friday and found a device which they said. BURLINGAME - Two new suspicious packages targeting prominent California Democrats were discovered Friday in the Bay Area and Sacramento, showing that the threat was far from over even as federal officials arrested a Florida man accused of sending crudely built pipe bombs to critics of President Trump. A suspicious item that was found in downtown Louisville has been removed and now the FBI will investigate.
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