MARQUETTE, MI-- A bomb scare at the post office/federal courthouse in Marquette prompted the evacuation of the 200 block of Washington Street Tuesday morning.
Det. Capt. Greg Kinonen of the Marquette Police Department says around 9:55 a.m. federal marshals found a suspicious device on top of a FedEx box as they did a perimeter check around the building. Officers evacuated businesses, blocked traffic and cordoned off the area.
With the help of the Michigan State Police Bomb Squad in Grayling, officers identified the device as a document holder for a pickup truck. A bomb-sniffing dog verified there were no explosives in it, and police found only documents inside.
Kinonen says law enforcement must take suspicious objects seriously.
“Once we have some sort of threat like this, we’re going to treat it as such. We don’t want to take chances with it being, you know, with it actually being a bomb. So, I mean, we have to make sure.”
The bomb-sniffing K-9 was led through the federal courthouse just to make sure everything was safe.
Businesses on the 200 block were allowed to reopen shortly after 11:30 a.m.