{"id":105656,"date":"2024-05-22T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vials-of-blood-found-at-rncs-dc-headquarters-police\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:04:05","slug":"vials-of-blood-found-at-rncs-dc-headquarters-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vials-of-blood-found-at-rncs-dc-headquarters-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Vials of blood found at RNC&#8217;s DC headquarters: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-22\/Getty_52224_RNCShutdown.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Celal Gunes\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The U.S. Capitol Police said they temporarily locked down the Republican National Committee&#8217;s Washington, D.C., headquarters on Wednesday morning after a suspicious package containing two vials of blood was found.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on the scene around 7:45 a.m. after the package was found, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The package was cleared by our Hazardous Incident Response Division,&#8221; Capitol Police said in a statement later in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police lifted the lockdown shortly after the package was removed. An investigation into the incident and the package&#8217;s source is ongoing, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC thanked officers for their swift work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lockdown has been cleared and staff has resumed their office duties because we remain unintimidated and undeterred in our efforts to elect President Trump to the White House,&#8221; RNC chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Beatrice Peterson contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celal Gunes\/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The U.S. Capitol Police said they temporarily locked down the Republican National Committee&#8217;s Washington, D.C., headquarters on Wednesday morning after a suspicious package containing two vials of blood was found. Officers arrived on the scene around 7:45 a.m. after the package was found,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vials-of-blood-found-at-rncs-dc-headquarters-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}