Prosthetic Leg, Not Bomb Found In Suspicious Package
Portland Bomb Squad Called To Sheriff's Office In Hillsboro
POSTED: 9:08 pm PDT April 12,
2009
UPDATED: 8:26 am PDT April 13,
2009
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- A suspicious package discovered at the Washington County Sheriff's Office on Sunday turned out to be a prosthetic leg inside a bag.At around noon, a deputy found a brown canvas bag with a silver cylinder-shaped object sticking out of the bag in front of the sheriff's office on Adams Avenue in Hillsboro. Deputies said they also noticed screws at one end of the cylinder.Unaware of the innocent contents of the package, deputies called in the Portland Police Bomb Squad to investigate the bag. The bomb squad used a robot to determine what was inside the bag and quickly discovered the object was a prosthetic leg.Deputies have not been able to determine who left the leg at their office nor have they found the owner of the leg.
Leg, Not Bomb Found In Suspicious Package
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