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Inner Harbor buildings evacuated in downtown Baltimore after vehicle found with 1,000 gallons of gasoline

[Ballymore Sun] Baltimore police discovered a van loaded with 1,000 gallons of gasoline Monday morning and are evacuating several office buildings from the Inner Harbor ‐ where emergency officials are urging people to stay away, city council members confirmed.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting Baltimore police on the scene.

A police spokesperson said they received a call at 11:02 a.m. about a suspicious van and began evacuating 100 E. Pratt St., which houses T. Rowe Price and and global professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Baltimore Police Col. Sheree Briscoe told City Council members that they are evacuating a four-block radius around 100 East Pratt St. and are asking the community to not travel to that area while the police investigate.

Update at 4:40 p.m. Mountain Time:

But a police robot that entered the 15-passenger van with blacked out windows did not discover a bomb. Instead, it found a device used for stealing diesel fuel and two bins full of possibly stolen gasoline, police said. Several city officials said they were told the van contained approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline, but a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment later said about 80 gallons of diesel fuel was offloaded.

Baltimore’s arson unit is investigating but no suspects have been identified. The massive emergency response Monday was aided by Capital police from Washington and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who were concerned for what they described as "elite visitors” expected to visit Baltimore on Thursday.

Posted by Frank G 2019-09-09 14:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 The article will be updated, so I look forward to see whether this is Sudden Jihad Syndrome or Antifa. Thanks for catching this for us, Frank G.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-09 14:23|| 2019-09-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody has to go in and safe that van. Prayers for the EOD guys.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-09-09 14:40|| 2019-09-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Nah, he just got a real good deal on gas! /sarc

Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-09 14:52|| 2019-09-09 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 TW, would antifa use gasoline?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-09 14:53|| 2019-09-09 14:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he was going to use it to burn out rats in the sewers ?

Oh, Oh ... inner harbour, posh. All the rats travel in Bentleys.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-09 14:55|| 2019-09-09 14:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Guy was practicing buy low sell high capitalism. He was going to sell it when prices went back up.

Posted by jpal 2019-09-09 15:38|| 2019-09-09 15:38|| Front Page Top

#7 ..then again, over tax tobacco you get a black market. Over tax gasoline....

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-09 16:12|| 2019-09-09 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 It shouldn't be too hard to track down the owner or renter of the truck.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-09 16:44|| 2019-09-09 16:44|| Front Page Top

#9 when gas went too $4/gal. , around here ppl where putting tanks and pumps in vans and would park over the place you fill the tanks and pump it out.

Posted by chris 2019-09-09 17:12|| 2019-09-09 17:12|| Front Page Top

#10 It's Baltimore.
BINASH

Posted by Lex 2019-09-09 19:35|| 2019-09-09 19:35|| Front Page Top

#11 TW, would antifa use gasoline?

It would be a new step for them, g(r)omgoru, but terrorists gotta terrorize. They’ve already started training to use guns — truck bombs are not really far behind.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-09 22:47|| 2019-09-09 22:47|| Front Page Top

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