\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPleasant Prairie police say they had to call in the bomb squad after locating a suspicious package outside a Dairy Queen.Police say they were called at around 8:15 p.m. Friday regarding a possible hazardous device found near the entrance of the restaurant off Highway 50.Officers evacuated people from inside several nearby businesses and closed off a portion of the highway out of an abundance of caution, according to police.Police say the bomb squad neutralized the device. But officers did not elaborate on what the device was.”Although the device was ultimately believed to be non-hazardous and not a threat to the community, these precautionary actions were taken out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety of the public,” the Pleasant Prairie Police Department said in a Facebook post.Police say this incident appears to be isolated and there is no ongoing threat to the community.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Pleasant Prairie police say they had to call in the bomb squad after locating a suspicious package outside a Dairy Queen.<\/p>\n
Police say they were called at around 8:15 p.m. Friday regarding a possible hazardous device found near the entrance of the restaurant off Highway 50.<\/p>\n
Officers evacuated people from inside several nearby businesses and closed off a portion of the highway out of an abundance of caution, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police say the bomb squad neutralized the device. But officers did not elaborate on what the device was.<\/p>\n
“Although the device was ultimately believed to be non-hazardous and not a threat to the community, these precautionary actions were taken out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety of the public,” the Pleasant Prairie Police Department said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Police say this incident appears to be isolated and there is no ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pleasant Prairie police say they had to call in the bomb squad after locating a suspicious package outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[84708,37281,66259,1882,4843,26901,65776,62358,12746,91717,745,9,24,63,2714,46259,1232,91720,91721,91718,104,122,124,123,1302,62959,9257,7193,91719],"class_list":["post-233962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-abundance","tag-bomb-squad","tag-caution","tag-community","tag-dairy-queen","tag-device","tag-evacuations","tag-facebook-post","tag-highway","tag-highway-50","tag-investigation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-officer","tag-package","tag-people","tag-pleasant-prairie-dairy-queen","tag-pleasant-prairie-police","tag-pleasant-prairie-police-department","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-restaurant","tag-suspicious-package","tag-threat","tag-wisn","tag-wisn-12-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}