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Powder disrupts court
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Published: April 28, 2009
TAMPA - A suspicious white powder in an envelope caused a scare at the Hillsborough County Courthouse on Monday afternoon, but it was not anthrax, Tampa Fire Rescue officials said.
The powder fell out when a clerk opened the envelope. The substance hasn't been identified but is not considered to be hazardous, said Capt. Bill Wade. The clerk is undergoing medical tests.
"These days when you open an envelope and white powder falls out, you have to be suspicious," Wade said.
The envelope was found about 12:45 p.m. in the clerk of the court's felony division on the second-floor of the annex building at Jefferson Street and Kennedy Boulevard. The first and second floors at the north end of the annex were evacuated.
Sixty people work in the area, but only the clerk who opened the envelope was considered at risk for exposure, Wade said.
A staff report
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