11th suspicious package discovered, sent to NJ Sen. Cory Booker
Courtesy ABC News
Authorities have recovered an eleventh suspected package in the widening investigation into a mass mail bombing campaign, with the latest target being Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, multiple sources told ABC News.
The latest package addressed to Booker was found Friday morning at or near Opa-locka in South Florida, sources said.
Investigators racing to identify who mailed 11 suspected bombs to former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other public figures are chasing promising leads pointing them to South Florida as the potential origin for some of the menacing parcels, sources told ABC News on Thursday.
Law enforcement agencies were deploying additional resources to South Florida in an all-out effort to find who mass mailed the suspicious packages containing explosive devices that authorities say are meant to maim and kill, the sources said.
“We are investigating all this with great precision. I can say with certainty that we will identify and arrest the person or people responsible for these acts,” New York police Commissioner James O’Neill said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. “Law enforcement professionals do not care about the politics involved in these acts.”
Bill Sweeney of the FBI’s New York office said an army of agents is “fully engaged” in the probe.
“This is a nationwide investigation involving multiple jurisdictions coast to coast,” Sweeney said.
Everyone who has been sent explosive devices so far is a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, and many of them have been publicly disparaged by the president either at campaign rallies or on Twitter. Investigators have not determined a motive for the mail bombs.
All of the devices, which are now being analyzed at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, went through the U.S. postal service. They were all intercepted before they reached their intended targets.
