{"id":52188,"date":"2026-01-05T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52188"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:15:49","slug":"arizona-supreme-court-evacuated-after-package-tests-positive-for-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52188","title":{"rendered":"Arizona supreme court evacuated after package tests positive for explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Department of education, across the street from the supreme court, also evacuated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Arizona\u2019s supreme court building was evacuated Monday morning after multiple vials that tested positive for a homemade explosive substance were sent to the building, according to the state\u2019s department of public safety (DPS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At about 8am on Monday, DPS responded to reports of a \u201csuspicious package\u201d. Later that morning multiple agencies, including the US Bureau of alcohol firearms and tobacco responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Around 10.30am Monday, staff at the Arizona supreme court building were sent home and the building was evacuated after a package in the building\u2019s mailroom tested positive for explosives,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/local\/arizona\/dps-investigating-suspicious-package-arizona-capitol-building-phoenix\/75-8f9c2b15-412f-4e72-af30-00f0f74690ed\">12News, Phoenix\u2019s NBC affiliate reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The building sits about a mile west of the city\u2019s downtown and the investigation into the package is being led by the state\u2019s department of public safety, the Phoenix police department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Multiple buildings in the area, including the department of education, across the street from the supreme court building,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>were<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>also evacuated, according to DPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/05\/arizona-supreme-court-evacuated-package-explosives\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of education, across the street from the supreme court, also evacuated Arizona\u2019s supreme court building was evacuated Monday morning after multiple vials that tested positive for a homemade explosive substance were sent to the building, according to the state\u2019s department of public safety (DPS). At about 8am on Monday, DPS responded to reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[2031,1723,9869,30600,8225,4985],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-arizona","tag-court","tag-dps","tag-explosive","tag-package","tag-positive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52190,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions\/52190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}