Update, Monday, 12:07 a.m.: The Detroit News reports that the Detroit police have determined that a newspaper box placed in front of the Federal Reserve Building on Fort Street, home to the Detroit News and Free Press, posed no danger. The box was removed and the offices have been reopened.
Original article, Sunday night
The Detroit Police bomb squad was apparently taking no chances Sunday night.
Jennifer Chambers of the Detroit News reports that the police bomb squad was investigating a "suspicious" red Detroit News coin box that had been left outside of the offices of the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press on Fort Street in downtown Detroit on Sunday evening. The box had a Detroit News paper in the box from 1995 with a headline: "Powell: Electing a black president 'could be done.'"
The paper reports that a witness said a man and woman parked in the middle of Fort Street around 6:30 p.m., removed the news box from an SUV and placed it in front of the building’s entrance. The building was evacuated and the area was roped off with yellow crime tape.
The newspaper box had the letters “POW” sprayed on the side and a white cloth wrapped around the top.
WDIV was reporting as of 11:20 p.m. that the box was still in front of the building.
The paper reports that one of the people who dropped off the box made comments about the 20th anniversary of the Detroit newspaper strike, which began July, 13, 1995.
