South Fulton police have confirmed that a suspicious item found at a United States Postal Service facility was not an explosive, as they previously reported.
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The threat was reported Thursday morning at 125 Villanova Drive, where the facility is located. Officers evacuated the building and shut down the road as a precaution.
Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach watched as the bomb squad took away a package and loaded it into a special containment truck from the Atlanta Police Bomb Squad.
Police initially said that testing determined it was a real explosive.
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They later said that further testing identified the device as a military ordinance.
Because of “concerning results” after an X-ray scan at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, it was taken to a disposal facility and detonated.
After detonation, it was determined that there were no explosive materials.
Channel 2’s Michael Seiden spoke to people in the area who watched on as the scene unfolded.
“When I pulled up this morning, it was alright, and I’d say around 6:50, boom! Boom! Boom! Police just coming down,” Wayne Walker, who works nearby, described.
This is the second time within a month the facility has been evacuated after a suspicious package was reported on Sept. 24.
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