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HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said yesterday that police in Boca Raton, Fla. contacted the suspect at HUPD’s request earlier this year and no incidents have been reported since...
Catalano said that after corresponding with the Boca Raton Police Department and district and U.S. attorneys in the area earlier this year, HUPD asked local police to locate the suspect and order him to stop calling. When he agreed and complied, according to Catalano, HUPD no longer needed to continue the investigation...
...against management; in New York, the workers are suing to close the Manhattan processing facility, where traces of anthrax were found on a sorting machine. In Florida, union members claim management did not respond adequately to workers' safety concerns after the first case of anthrax was diagnosed in Boca Raton...
Since two of the Florida victims worked in American Media's mailroom, postal workers who sorted and delivered the company's mail have also been tested, and Postal Service employees are demanding blanket testing for everyone in the Boca Raton-area post offices. Mail clerks in half a dozen other cities with anthrax scares were also tested, and media outlets--including TIME--temporarily shut down mailrooms while they scrambled to beef up security. The Postal Service has issued new guidelines on how to do that (examples: don't open any mail on which the postmark and return address...
...Reported by Alice Park and Amanda Ripley/New York, Tim Padgett and Kathie Klarreich/Boca Raton, and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles, with other bureaus...