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Police check out ‘suspicious package’ on Peachtree Street
Police investigating reports of a suspicious package on Peachtree Street, south of the Peachtree Hills community in Buckhead on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the package was discovered in a nearby dumpster.
A section of Peachtree Street near the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center was closed while a SWAT team checked out the package.
The SWAT team deactivated their investigation about 3 p.m. Police did not say what the item was that prompted the investigation.
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Fran Jeffries is a Newsletter Producer. She joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2005 as an Education Editor. She worked as a Breaking News Editor and Social Media Producer before joining the Newsletter team.
