Report: Suspicious Package Addressed To CNN Intercepted At Atlanta Post Office
CNN President Jeff Zucker announced that there is no imminent danger to the CNN Center in Atlanta. Atlanta Police have confirmed they responded to a suspicious package at a post office Monday morning.
Ron Harris / Associated Press file
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Monday
Atlanta police have reopened several streets as local and federal police probe a suspicious package found at a postal facility near the downtown area.
At noon Monday, a robot was being maneuvered outside the facility and about 100 feet from a row of U.S. mail trucks in the parking lot. An Atlanta Police Department bomb squad unit was parked at the entrance to the parking lot.
Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service were investigating on the street just outside the postal facility’s parking lot.
The FBI has confirmed that the package recovered at the Atlanta facility was addressed to CNN.
CNN President Jeff Zucker said all mail to CNN has been screened offsite since last week, when a series of package bombs began appearing around the country. One of those bombs was mailed to CNN offices in New York.
Cesar Sayoc, 56, was arrested Friday in Florida after investigators said they linked him to the packages through fingerprint and DNA evidence. He faces five federal charges.
Another suspicious package addressed to CNN has been intercepted. This time in Atlanta. All mail is being screened off site. Note from Jeff: pic.twitter.com/I6TXSkoluQ
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) October 29, 2018
This report will be updated as more information comes in.
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