Lewis told us on Friday that he'd talked to the officer reviewing the incident, who said "there was no specific or credible threat" that could be used as the basis for a criminal charge. Neither a report nor a copy of the letter that referred to the cover story were immediately available by Friday afternoon. The package was taken from New Times, 1201 East Jefferson Street, to a police facility. Police opened the box, topped with an envelope addressed to Wasser, to find burned ashes of what appeared to burned copies of the paper. "The dog didn't hit on the package," said Phoenix police Sergeant Vince Lewis said. Someone had wrapped the box with several fastened-together covers featuring the May 20 article " The Deepest Cut" by staff writer Miriam Wasser, an article about jailed juvenile homicide suspect Jessica Burlew. A suspicious package left at the Phoenix New Times' parking lot in downtown Phoenix on Friday morning contained a letter referring to a recent cover article about an emotionally-disturbed teenager accused in a homicide case, police said.Īfter a New Times employee found a large cardboard box in the lot at about 5:30 a.m., cops brought in an explosives-sniffing dog from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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