Bomb squad: suspicious package left in bank is harmless
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland police bomb squad responded to a suspicious package at a bank in Northwest Portland Monday morning. The package turned out to be harmless.
It happened at the Chase Bank at 1035 NW Lovejoy Street at about 9:30 a.m., police said.
Bank workers said a man ran in, dropped a suspicious package inside the bank and then fled the area. Police called the bomb squad while they evacuated the bank and nearby businesses.
Police said bomb technicians examined the package and said it contained clothing, papers and garbage.
Police described the suspect as a white male 45 to 50 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 180 to 190 pounds with a "scruffy face" and wearing a beanie-style cap.
He was wearing a heavy backpack and was last seen walking northbound on NW11th Avenue, investigators said.
Police closed traffic from NW 10th to NW 12th avenues and from Kearny to Marshall streets during the investigation but reopened the streets after the package was deemed harmless.
More police state propoganda... "give up more freedom suckers, so we can protect you".
why didn't they evacuate the entire state? this was a suspicious package for goodness sakes!
These "suspicious packages" are always harmless. If this where the middle east things might be different, but it's not. Clearly the terrorists have won since this country has been turned into a bunch of paranoid panty wastes.
Jamie, go ask the 2 cops that got blown up by a "harmeless" suspicious package that was left at the bank in Woodburn..or the cop that got his legs blown off that day how "harmeless" they think the suspicious package was...they thought just like you and paid the ultimate price for it...
 @Pazzo1 That was their own fault.
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But wearing a bomb suit flies in the face of  âalways harmless" (your words).
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Taking precaution and taking precaution is the same thing.
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Being blown up NOT "taking precautions" is no less being blown up than treating the device as "harmless".
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Did you miss your previous statement?
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 @Repoman  @Pazzo1For not taking precautions like the padded bomb suits they could have worn had they waited a little longer.
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Their own fault?
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For what not taking a "suspicious package" seriously?
because they thought like you..that it was "harmeless" you just never know..most are nothing but all it takes is one...