RALEIGH -- An anonymous phone call threatening a bomb at the Department of Justice led State Capitol Police to evacuate 400 employees from the building this morning.
The threat was called in to the building at the corner of Edenton and Salisbury streets at 10 a.m., said Chief Scott Hunter of the State Capitol Police Department.
Officers with bomb sniffing dogs and the State Bureau of Investigation's Hazardous Devices Unit searched the building floor by floor.
"We have not found anything out of the ordinary," Hunter said, adding that the threat included no specifics other than a statement that the bomb was in the building.
Hunter said he expected the building to reopen around 1 p.m. Most employees appeared to have scattered for lunch.
The building houses the office of Attorney General of Roy Cooper, who oversees the SBI, which has been under scrutiny for agent misconduct in forensic work for criminal investigations.
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