Sunrise, FL – Police and hazardous materials crews responded to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Sunrise office Monday after a staff member reported a suspicious envelope.
The delivery was reported around 3 p.m. Sunday at 777 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, according to information Sunrise officials provided to local news outlets. Wasserman Schultz was not at the office when the envelope was discovered.
Sunrise Police said responders secured the envelope without opening it and initially could not identify its contents. Emergency vehicles, including police cars and fire rescue trucks, were visible outside the building in NBC6 aerial footage.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service took custody of the letter and began investigating, Sunrise Police spokesman Victor Fortune told the Miami Herald. The FBI was also notified. Fortune said normal business operations resumed at the property.
Wasserman Schultz confirmed the delivery in a social media post and thanked police and emergency personnel for responding to protect her staff. She described the incident as intimidation and said such actions should be condemned.
WLRN reported that preliminary testing at the office found no hazardous materials. The results did not identify the envelope’s contents, and authorities had not publicly established a connection to other suspicious mailings.
Federal agencies are separately investigating letters sent to congressional offices and election officials across several states. Some contained unidentified substances, including white powder, according to NBC News reporting cited by NBC6.
Investigators were still working to determine the origins of those letters and identify whoever sent them. The reports reviewed did not identify a suspect or announce an arrest connected to the Sunrise incident.