Detroit Police Remove Suspicious Envelope Outside Theodore Levin United States Courthouse - pics

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A Detroit Police Department bomb squad member reaches to remove a suspicious envelope left outside the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspect who allegedly tried to set off an explosive device aboard Northwest flight 253, pleaded not guilty at the courthouse to charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on the U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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A Detroit Police Department bomb squad member carries a suspicious envelope left outside the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspect who allegedly tried to set off an explosive device aboard Northwest flight 253, pleaded not guilty at the courthouse to charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on the U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)




Posted: 2:51 p.m. Jan. 8, 2010
Suspicious package turns out to be woman's item
By BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A suspicious white envelope placed in the Detroit federal courthouse where a terror suspect had been arraigned caused a scramble by police today but proved to be a false alarm.

A U.S. Marshals Service employee noticed the envelope placed on the ledge of a ground floor window of the federal courthouse on the Fort Street side.

The incident happened just minutes after the suspect in the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest flight into Detroit was arraigned.

Agents cleared the sidewalk, shut the block down between Shelby and Washington Boulevard and closed the building's Fort Street entrance.

The Detroit Police Bomb Squad came on the scene and federal agents were combing the premises with bomb-sniffing dogs. Police appeared to have a robot on a trailer that is sometimes used to pick up and detonate suspicious packages.

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