{"id":379528,"date":"2026-10-22T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379528\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:03:29","slug":"news-12-bronx-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-becomes-latest-politician-sent-suspicious-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379528\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Becomes Latest Politician Sent Suspicious Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez confirmed that her district office in The Bronx was sent a suspicious letter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York Democrat released a statement expressing gratitude for law enforcement\u2019s quick response to the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is the latest incident amid a trend of suspicious mail being sent to politicians and lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than a dozen officials have reported letters and packages containing powdery white substances over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rep. Ritchie Torres\u2019 office was among one of the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/suspicious-packages-sent-to-additional-tri-state-lawmakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent targets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FBI and other law enforcement agencies say they are investigating the matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez confirmed that her district office in The Bronx was sent a suspicious letter on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-379528","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\/379528","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=379528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}