{"id":39867,"date":"2019-03-29T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/maleng-regional-justice-center-in-kent-evacuated-after-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:46:10","slug":"maleng-regional-justice-center-in-kent-evacuated-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/maleng-regional-justice-center-in-kent-evacuated-after-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent evacuated after bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement agencies have evacuated the Maleng Regional Justice Center in downtown Kent Friday afternoon because of a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p>All King County Superior Court operations were suspended for the rest of the day, according to a tweet from King County Superior Court at about 2:40 p.m. They added that people should check back Monday if they have court business this afternoon because the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/dYXXaZGXNQp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">RJC, 401 Fourth Ave. N<\/a>., is closed for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police are overseeing the investigation, but the King County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office also is involved because it is a county building.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a bomb threat called in to district court,&rdquo; Sheriff&rsquo;s Office spokesman Ryan Abbott said in a phone interview. &ldquo;We evacuated everybody.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bomb sniffing dogs from the Port of Seattle Explosives Detection K-9 Units swept the building and an all clear notice was given at about 3:15 p.m., Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was kind of a vague threat from what I understand,&rdquo; Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner said officers cleared the scene after no explosives were located at the RJC.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have cleared the scene,&rdquo; Kasner said.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb threat did not impact the county jail on the west end of the RJC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search on Friday finds no explosive devices <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":39868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39867"}],"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=39867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39867"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}