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UPDATE: Bomb threat prompts Hanover evacuation

Posted at 9:35 AM, Jun 01, 2012
and last updated 2012-06-01 10:00:26-04

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) – A security sweep of at the Hanover County General District Court building turned up  nothing suspicious.

A morning bomb threat forced the evacuation of Hanover General District and Circuit Court Buildings, according to Hanover County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Chris Whitley.

Whitley said the threat was called in around 8:15 a.m.

Whitley asked anyone with information to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 365-6110.

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