The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating four suspicious packages that were sent to Toyota Motor Corp U.S. facilities in the past week that were later found not to contain threatening.
“This package is similar to other suspicious packages mailed to our corporate office in Erlanger, Kentucky, on Friday and our West Virginia and Texas plants on Monday. All of these packages were found to be non-threatening,” Toyota spokeswoman Kelly Dillon said.
It bore a handwritten originating address from Nigeria, just like the other three packages, said Gibson County Chief Deputy Sheriff George Ballard. A postal inspector called it a “hoax device,” Princeton police detective Sgt. Mike Hurt said.
The automaker evacuated its North American manufacturing headquarters in Kentucky on Friday after a suspicious package was found in the mailroom. The brief evacuation ended after officers determined the package was not a threat. Similar packages were also delivered to Toyota plants in West Virginia and Texas but neither of the two plants conducted evacuation procedures. The fourth package was intercepted at a post office in Princeton, Indiana, near a Toyota manufacturing plant.
The Princeton incident is being investigated by the FBI, the Indiana State Police and the postal inspector in Evansville, state police spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle said. He said he could not discuss details of the investigation.
said the FBI had been investigating the incidents since Friday and Toyota was not calling the incidents threats.
“For all we know, it could be that these packages were legitimate attempts to contact Toyota.” Mike Goss added.
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