Police say box with wires that drew bomb squad to Wichita post office wasn’t explosive
Worry over a package left at the downtown Wichita post office shut down the location and sparked a bomb squad response on Wednesday afternoon, but Wichita police now say — fortunately — there was nothing explosive in the box.
The box, apparently left by a homeless man, had wires hanging out of it, Wichita police spokesman Chad Ditch said Thursday by email.
The man walked into the post office carrying it, then left the location without it.
Out of concern, “the post office called 911 and our Bomb Squad was dispatched,” Ditch said. That happened at 1:14 p.m.
The post office, 330 W. Second St., evacuated temporarily as a precaution, he said.
But authorities “determined quickly that the box was not a device and people were allowed back into the area.”
Ditch said Thursday he didn’t know exactly what was in the box. It’s unclear why the man left it.
This story was originally published November 10, 2022 at 11:28 AM.
