Suspicious package provokes evacuation at Bernie Sanders office in Burlington

The office of Senator Bernie Sanders in Burlington was evacuated Thursday after police estimated that a package delivered to this location was suspect, authorities said. Burlington police said at a press conference that the suspect package was not an explosive device and that it had been deemed "harmless".

Sanders was in New York Thursday for the recording of one "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"His 2020 campaign stated that they were not commenting on safety issues.

Police said that the contents of the package and the recipient were not yet clear. The American Post will launch an investigation.

Investigators were called around 11:45, reports WCAX-TV, a subsidiary of CBS Burlington. The building was evacuated around 4 pm, the station said.

Burlington police tweeted the state police had also responded.

Burlington deputy police officer Jon Murad described to WCAX-TV the criteria that would encourage evacuation.

"Slightly indented addresses or intended recipients of the device that no longer work in the office," Murad told WCAX-TV. "They include postage-paid packages, which include packages that have been glued or closed in a strange way, and include packages that may have outside signage or symbolism that indicate a problem or messages beyond." what a normal package would have and would make the package suspect, so suspect, but I can not talk about it, just because the investigation is going on, but I will say that he met a lot of these things and that's why we spent a lot of time watching it. "

This is the second time this month that authorities are investigating packages in Sanders' offices, according to WCAX-TV. On September 11, authorities responded to his St. Johnsbury office for an incident that turned out to be a false alarm.

Cara Korte contributed to the reports.