Crime & Safety

Suspicious Package Report Led to Empty Tackle Box

Traffic was detoured in Norristown while authorities investigated a box left outside of a government office.

A plastic tackle box left outside of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) office on Main Street on Wednesday was the subject of an investigation by Norristown police, who, along with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, responded to a suspicious package report and determined that the box was empty, according to The Times Herald.

The report was made Wednesday morning in regard to the black, plastic box, which was about one foot long, and was found about 10 feet from the office entrance at a curb, which led to a police detour and the Montgomery County Bomb Squad investigating the box using x-ray technology.

The box was found by a DEP employee around 10:15 a.m. The Norristown office is the DEP’s Southeast Regional Office.

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According to Montgomery County Sheriff Eileen Whalon Behr, the box was found to be empty.

Traffic was detoured from Main Street at DeKalb Street and Cherry Street, as well as the intersection of Airy Street and Swede Street.   

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