Breaking: FBI Responds To Threat Involving Bus at Naval Station

Breaking News - FBI Responds To Threat Involving HRT Bus That Entered Naval Station Norfolk

The FBI is responding to an incident at Naval Station Norfolk. There are conflicting reports on the situation. But there are reports that a threat was made about an HRT bus entering the Navy base.

The Hampton Roads Transit president has told WAVY News 10 that they received a threatening call to their transportation center. The caller made a threat that if a specific HRT bus made it onto the Navy base; somebody was going to die.

The bus was able to get onto the base. Officials have stopped the bus at the fleet recreation park and have it contained. Norfolk police, FBI, NCIS, Navy Special Forces Bomb Squad, and other agencies are investigating.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2747914&nav=23iiUgKq

now they will blame osama on that one or the liberals..

I doubt if it is foreign terrorism. They don't call first.

What is the latest report?

and traffic to and from the base has been halted. They're sending in the robots.

this ought to be good . . .

I hope all pans out without a problem. Could be a psyops call to strike some fear before the New Year?

Thanks for the updates. Stay safe.

:shrug: Im IN Norfolk.

pilotonline and wavy tv websites have updates.

but AFTER all your posts. You scooped 'em! Once again, DU proves to be the best source for up to the minute news.

I love this place!

Glad you are OK.

I happen to choose today to come on base and talk with my customers. I'm stuck and I have an appointment this PM.

G'damned terrists. Don't they have any consideration?

Hope you shower afterwards.

People go berserk. We have lots of tornados here and the local weather guy says people will call in during a tornado warning and scream at them for pre-empting General Hospital! :D

...that they would have run a CRAWL underneath the picture, so people who gave a damn could switch channels. But I guess that would impact their advertising dollars. Can't get in the way of commerce, I suppose!

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=79912&ran=150498

Brantley said police were interviewing bus passengers. It was unclear whether a passenger made the call to police, but the caller specifically mentioned one bus by its number, Brantley said. That bus was pulled over, as was another, after the call was received between 9:30 and 10 a.m.

Everyone within 1,500 yards of the park was evacuated, Brantley said.

Base bomb threat found to be hoax
Breaking: A sweep of the two Hampton Roads Transit buses stopped this morning at the Norfolk Naval Station has turned up no explosives or other threats, a city police spokesman said Thursday afternoon. Shortly after 1:30 p.m., a Navy spokesperson declared the situation a hoax.

http://www.hamptonroads.com/pilotonline/

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At 9:50 a.m., city police were notified that Navy police had received information that there was a toxic substance on board a bus that was going to kill people on the base, said Jack Goldhorn, a spokesman for Norfolk Fire-Rescue.

Another Norfolk official gave a slightly different version of events. Ron Keys, Norfolk’s director of emergency preparedness and response, said Navy dispatchers received a call about a possible drunken driver on an HRT bus on Hampton Boulevard near the base. The Navy alerted Norfolk police.

A short time later, Norfolk dispatchers received a 911 call from a pay phone on Hampton Boulevard, Keys said. The call was traced to a pay phone at a 7-11 store near the 8200 block of Hampton, Amos said.

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i like that the bus number given was 936 but they also stopped the 911 !

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D879UKPO0.html

Investigators are looking at surveillance video in hopes of identifying the person who planted a hoax bomb in a Wal-Mart Supercenter, causing a three-hour evacuation.

Someone called the store Tuesday afternoon and told employees that there was a bomb inside, police said.

A bomb squad from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives removed the package and determined it was a fake.

Mansfield police spokesman officer Thad Penkala said they were working with investigators from Colleyville, where a pipe bomb was found Tuesday in a park. Colleyville police closed a road for more than an hour as an explosives team detonated the pipe bomb found along a creek.