Crime & Safety
Suspicious Package at BOE Building Just Garbage Bags, Table Cloth
False alarm closed Woodland Road for about two hours Tuesday morning.
A suspicious package found Tuesday morning outside the Board of Education office was a bundle of trash bags wrapped in a plastic table cloth, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said.
Morris County First Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Zelante said they found three empty garbage bags wrapped in a plastic table cloth.
The Madison Police Department issued a Nixle alert shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday for "police activity" on Woodland Road and sent a second message shortly before 10 a.m. saying the roadway had cleared.
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