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Bomb squad called to OC federal building
Posted: 01.22.2009 at 10:34 AM
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Authorities say no bombs were found in a backpack that was left at the Oklahoma City federal building or a car that war parked next to it.

Bomb technicians carefully searched both today after a man entered the federal building around 12:30 p.m. and left two notes indicating a bomb was in the backpack and one was in a car.

The FBI says no bombs were found and the backpack and vehicle were being removed from the premises.

Officials say the man requested to go to the Social Security office but left after he was told he would have to go through the security checkpoint.

Thirty-year-old Roderick Robinson was taken into custody after a business near the federal building called and said a suspicious individual was there.

The federal building opened in 2003 as a replacement for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that was destroyed in the 1995 bombing.

(Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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