White powder mailed to Paterson City Hall is harmless, like the others

An agent with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said a suspicious white powder in an envelope delivered to the Paterson Public Safety Complex tested negative, as the agency deals with another in a escalating string of similar New Jersey incidents.

Jerry DeMarco

02/17/2010 6:33 p.m.

“It sounds familiar,” he told CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM. “But [we] haven’t kept tabs one for one.”

The service has sent all of the mailings to its lab for analysis, the agent said. The FBI also was alerted.

Paterson City Hall

Several businesses and agencies have received the envelopes the past two weeks, with at least one of them confirmed to contain a threat against Citibank. A Citibank branch in Cedar Grove got one on Tuesday.

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