{"id":375084,"date":"2026-10-16T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375084\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:54:56","slug":"news-12-bronx-envelope-with-white-powder-sent-to-rep-richie-torres-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375084\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Envelope With White Powder Sent To Rep Richie Torres Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rep. Richie Torres&#8217; office tells News 12 it received an envelope with a suspicious substance Friday and the NYPD is testing it.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says it happened just before 1:30 p.m. at 540 East Fordham Road. Police say it&#8217;s not clear who the envelope was specifically addressed to.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a white powder was discovered inside a mailed envelope.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says six people were exposed to the suspicious powder, but none are exhibiting any symptoms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY Hazmat team responded, and the NYPD Emergency Service is also on scene and has established a safe perimeter. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says following an investigation, the substance was deemed not be hazardous.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People are asked to avoid the area of East Fordham Road and Lorillard Place. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Richie Torres&#8217; office tells News 12 it received an envelope with a suspicious substance Friday and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-375084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375084","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=375084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}