{"id":14316,"date":"2010-01-29T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-bomb-square-a-bust-closes-bank-portion-of-street\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:50:27","slug":"kent-bomb-square-a-bust-closes-bank-portion-of-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-bomb-square-a-bust-closes-bank-portion-of-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent bomb square a bust: closes bank, portion of street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police bomb squad determined that a report of a suspicious package Friday morning outside of a downtown Kent bank turned out to be an empty box.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was nothing in it,&#8221; said Lisa Price, Kent Police spokeswoman, in a phone interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police evacuated the HomeStreet Bank, 505 W. Harrison St., for about two hours after a person saw a 1-foot-square cardboard box left next to a bench by the bank.<\/p>\n<p>The package was reported to police at about 11:20 a.m. Friday. Police allowed the bank to reopen at about 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal Way Police bomb squad investigated the box. Kent, which does not have a bomb squad, has a mutual-aid agreement with Federal Way to use its investigators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was outside of a bank so we needed to treat everything seriously,&#8221; Price said.<\/p>\n<p>Police blocked off about a one block area around the bank and moved all of the bank employees and customers away from the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Price said she did not know if it was a bank employee or another individual who called police about the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police bomb squad determined that a report of a suspicious package Friday morning outside of a downtown Kent bank turned out to be an empty box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}