Multiple sick with mystery symptoms from ‘white substance’ found in suspicious package at Georgia courthouse
At least four Fulton County Courthouse employees were treated for an unknown illness after intercepting a suspicious package with a white substance inside.
A package containing the mysterious substance arrived at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office was opened on Friday, officials said.
At least four employees have been affected by the substance, but are conscious and alert, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
The substance has since been deemed safe, according to WSBTV.
It is unclear what symptoms the employees experienced or what the substance was. The four were taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to the Atlanta Constitution Journal.
The courthouse’s third floor was temporarily placed on lockdown after the letter and substance were found, with a hazmat team arriving on the scene.
However, that lockdown was lifted around 3:30pm in the courthouse where Attorney General Fani Willis works.
Officials said the letter was opened around 2pm, and Atlanta Fire was immediately alerted.
The courthouse’s third floor was temporarily placed on lockdown after the letter and substance were found, with a hazmat team arriving on the scene. However, that lockdown was lifted around 3:30pm
At least four Fulton County Courthouse employees have come down with something after intercepting a suspicious package with a white substance inside. It is unclear what symptoms the employees experienced. The four were taken to the hospital as a precaution
Atlanta Fire Department Rescue did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
In December, DA Willis was disqualified from the Donald Trump election interference prosecution, striking a potentially lethal blow to the case.
Willis will not be allowed to remain on the case due to her sensational affair with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade, who stepped down from his post, which she attempted to cover up.
Ruling in a 2-1 opinion, the Georgia appeals court said she was ‘wholly disqualified from this case,’ and pointed to ‘a significant appearance of impropriety.’
The ruling overturns Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s decision that allowed Willis and her team to remain on the Trump case despite the affair as long as Wade left his job as Willis’ lead prosecutor.
In his ruling McAfee did point to an ‘odor of mendacity’ around the case in light of the stunning revelations.
Officials said the letter was opened around 2pm, and Atlanta Fire was immediately alerted
In December, DA Willis was disqualified from the Donald Trump election interference prosecution, striking a potentially lethal blow to the case
The charges brought Trump’s infamous mugshot. In January, an appeals court upheld the dismissal of some of the charges against Trump in Georgia’s election interference case
The latest ruling did not toss out the case itself, although the decision raises barriers that legal experts immediately called potentially terminal.
Another team of prosecutors would have to come in from another county to bring the case, at a time when the other criminal cases against Trump have collapsed after his election to the presidency.
In January, an appeals court upheld the dismissal of some of the charges against Trump in Georgia’s election interference case.
