The “suspicious package” that triggered Thursday afternoon’s evacuation at Atlanta City Hall was not a real bomb — or real jewelry.
Just before 2 p.m., Atlanta police were alerted to a possible suspicious package at 66 Mitchell St., a location on the east side of Atlanta City Hall. The building was evacuated and the police department’s bomb technicians were summoned.
Just over an hour later, police gave an all-clear and people were allowed to re-enter the building.
The contents of the suspicious package?
“A bag of costume jewelry,” Atlanta police Sgt. Greg Lyon said.
At the same time the City Hall situation was going on, a bomb threat was called in to the fourth floor of the city’s municipal court building on Garnett Street. The building was temporarily evacuated, Lyon said, but was reopened around the same time City Hall was.
Authorities don’t believe the incidents are related.
“Not connected,” Lyon said in an email. “Two totally different circumstances.”
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