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WASHINGTON - Police gave the all-clear today after investigating suspicious packages at three locations in the US capital, including one by the White House tossed over the fence by a homeless woman, authorities said.
Authorities had blocked off some streets around the White House because of a parcel lobbed by the woman into the courtyard of an office building adjacent to the presidential mansion, the Secret Service said.
"The package was declared safe," Darrin Blackford, spokesman for the Secret Service, said. "It wasn't anything threatening."
The woman who threw the package near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where government officials have offices, was being questioned, Blackford said. It was not clear if she would be charged.
The other locations were by Union Station, where Amtrak and commuter rail services operate, and by a Coast Guard facility, according to a Washington police spokesman. The all-clear was given at those locations as well after bomb squads investigated, he said.
- REUTERS
