{"id":23245,"date":"2013-06-26T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23245"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:35:08","slug":"police-investigate-suspicious-package-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/06\/police-investigate-suspicious-package-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Police investigate suspicious package on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Updated 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The police investigation into the suspicious package continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Denis Morris High School has its graduation ceremony scheduled for tonight in the Walker Complex, which is not affected by this afternoon&#8217;s precautionary building and road closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Denis Morris officials are waiting for more information from the investigation before making a decision about the status of tonight&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Updated 3:51 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Police continue to investigate a suspicious package found in the Alumni-Student Centre earlier Wednesday this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Both the Alumni-Student Centre and Plaza Building have been evacuated. All other buildings on campus have not been evacuated and operations in those buildings continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Both the Alumni-Student Centre and Plaza Building remain closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Interior campus roads near the investigation remain closed and pedestrians are asked to avoid the area and the front of the Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All transit users are asked to make their way to the Rosalind Bauer day care centre near Parking Lot D via Thistle Complex and Welch Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Police and emergency services were called to the Brock campus around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday after a suspicious package was reported in the Alumni-Student Centre.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">As a precaution, officials closed nearby interior campus roads to traffic and evacuated the Alumni-Student Centre and Plaza Building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">The campus is not being evacuated at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transit users are being routed through Thistle Complex to Welch Hall to Parking Lot D in order to catch buses in front of the day care centre. Pedestrians are asked to avoid the investigation area and the front of the Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Please watch the Brock home page for updates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and emergency services were called to the Brock campus around 1:30 pm Wednesday after a suspicious package was reported in the Alumni-Student Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23245"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23248,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions\/23248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}