The Indy Star is reporting that “an employee in the House speaker’s office has been isolated after opening an envelope filled with an unidentified powder.” (The original headline on the RSS Feed was “State House Locked Down” while the current another headline reads “Powder spooks Statehouse” and yet another headline reads “Statehouse closed while powder threat checked.”)
The Indianapolis Fire Department and Marion
County Health Department responded to a call to the office of Speaker Brian C. Bosma shortly before noon. An envelope addressed to Bosma, with no return address, was opened by an employee of his staff, said House Republican spokesman Tony Samuel.She immediately washed her hands, he said, and was avoiding contact with others. The employee, who Samuel declined to identify, was not suffering from any health problems after opening the envelope.
The Indianapolis Fire Department or Marion County Health Department is expected to test the substance this afternoon, Samuel said. The Department of Homeland Security and the Indiana State Police were notified. Bosma left the office after the incident, his staff said.
Spookie. And difficult to track down, apparently. Judging from the fact that nobody every tracked down the person who sent the anthrax to Tom Daschle’s office in October 2001.
Update Rep. Dvorak has a story here.
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