By Chris Schafer

The Princeton police and fire departments responded to a call of a suspicious-looking package located at the back door of the Princeton Post Officer early on the morning of Sept. 30. By 6:30 a.m. officers had blocked Rum River Drive at the intersections of 1st Street and 3rd Street, diverting traffic to the side streets.

Officers also used police tape to block off the entire parking lot of the post office.

Princeton Police Chief Brian Payne couldn’t say much about the situation at this early stage other than to comment that a suspcious package had been found on the step behind the post office. He added that the package was a box and it was sitting on the step, not taped to the door.

Officers have also confirmed that a similar package has been found at the high school and the Princeton PUC.

School has been canceled for all builidings and students at the high school have been placed in lockdown and will be bused to the middle school to be bused home.

 Update 9:45: Bomb squads from both Minneapolis and Crow Wing County have arrived outside the Princeton post office.

Update 10:40: A press conference will take place at 11 a.m. near the Princeton Library. More information will be posted after that press conference.

Update 11:26. Photos will be posted shortly of crews working with the object in question at the post office. The photos will appear in the mycapture section of the page on the right side of the page. 

Update 9:20 p.m. Sources have confirmed that in addition to the three mysterious packages, five additional items described as "McGuyver bombs" were discovered around the city. The objects were judged to not be dangerous in their current condition.  They were collected and delivered to the BCA for further research.

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