{"id":430782,"date":"2026-10-17T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430782\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:28:07","slug":"suspicious-packages-sent-to-florida-congressional-offices-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430782\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious packages sent to Florida congressional offices under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Authorities are investigating after suspicious deliveries were reported at the offices of two Florida congressmen Friday, prompting a building evacuation in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the Orlando office of<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=+U.S.+Rep.+Maxwell+Frost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost<\/a>, who said his staff received a suspicious package similar to those sent to other congressional offices across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The building was evacuated, and Frost said his staff was safe.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/melting-desantis-statue-unveiled-in-tallahassee-to-protest-climate-policy-florida-climate-change-melting-desantis-statue-denial-statue-tallahassee-protest-climate-change-protest-florida-environmental-advocates-climate-activism-350-action-uncommon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Melting DeSantis statue unveiled in Tallahassee to protest climate policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 45 minutes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=U.S.%20Rep.%20Darren%20Soto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Rep. Darren Soto<\/a> said law enforcement intercepted an envelope containing an unknown substance that was sent to his office in Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in either incident.<\/p>\n<p>Both incidents remain under investigation. Authorities have not released additional details about the contents of the deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Authorities are investigating after suspicious deliveries were reported at the offices of two Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-430782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}