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Police outside the Royal Palm processing and distribution center of the US Post Office, in Opa-locka, Florida on Thursday.
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Police outside the Royal Palm processing and distribution center of the US Post Office, in Opa-locka, Florida on Thursday.
Miami Herald / TNS via Getty Images
In less than a week, at least 10 potentially explosive devices have been sent to Democrats and critics of President Trump across the country, and at least one of them has passed through a major sorting center. American mail to Opa-locka, Florida, near Miami. , according to several reports.
The Miami Herald, quoting a federal law enforcement official as saying the investigation, said the package sent by the establishment was probably the one that was found Wednesday at the Office of US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, South Florida.
This package had been sent to the office of the former Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder. It was not delivered and was sent to the specified return address – listed as Wasserman Schultz's office.
Before the package arrives there, the Herald indicates that it has been redirected via the Opa-locka mail sorting system.
Federal agents and the Miami-Dade County Police Department searched the premises Thursday night, according to newspaper reports. Herald, Reuters and Associated Press. According to reports, no potentially explosive devices were found.
"A search in a postal database suggested that at least some of them had been sent from Florida," reports the AP.
Hundreds of thousands of parcels flock to the facility every day. It's the size of five football fields, the Herald reports.
The packages, containing gear that seem to be explosive devices, began appearing on Monday, starting with billionaire George Soros, a major donor of Democrats and Democratic causes.
Packages were also addressed to former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Representative Maxine Waters, D- Calif, and at the care of CNN, the former CIA director, John Brennan. One of them was also addressed to the actor Robert De Niro, severe critic of Trump.
All were sent in similar manila envelopes – with Wasserman Schultz listed as a sender, with his misspelled surname.
All parcels were intercepted or discovered; none of them exploded and no one was injured. Even then, the authorities treat them as "live devices" and not as "hoaxes," New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday.
An FBI investigation is still ongoing.
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