{"id":375240,"date":"2026-10-16T23:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375240\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:06:31","slug":"state-police-investigate-reports-of-suspicious-envelopes-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375240\/","title":{"rendered":"State police investigate reports of suspicious envelopes in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fbd6aa1d-0063-4743-ab1a-e0c3ffec0f82_1684849795.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Sophia Venturo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792191991_706_3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">New York State Police responded to the Essex County Government Building Thursday after the Board of Elections reported receiving a suspicious envelope.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Police said they received the report at around 11 a.m. They later determined that the letter was a mail-in ballot, and there was no threat.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The state police Critical Incident Response Team secured and examined the envelope, and  determined it was not threat. It was identified as a mailed-in ballot.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">We now know that letters were also sent to the offices of New York senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The New Hampshire Attorney General&#8217;s Office said the suspicious letters were also sent to some of the state&#8217;s offices.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The incident remains under investigation. So far, no one has been harmed in these incidents. It is still unclear who sent them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police responded to the Essex County Government Building Thursday after the Board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3665,970,138054,416,13946,138053,745,138055,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,253,8938,138056,9257,6951],"class_list":["post-375240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-a-m","tag-board","tag-election-security","tag-elections","tag-essex-county","tag-essex-county-board-of-elections","tag-investigation","tag-mailed-in-ballot","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-report","tag-state-police","tag-suspicious-envelope","tag-threat","tag-wptz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375240","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=375240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}