{"id":193531,"date":"2026-03-06T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:07:07","slug":"bomb-squad-clears-suspicious-package-near-federal-courthouse-in-downtown-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193531\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad clears \u2018suspicious package\u2019 near federal courthouse in downtown Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police were called to an intersection of downtown Dallas near the federal courthouse Friday morning over reports of a \u201csuspicious package,\u201d officials confirmed to The Dallas Morning News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">More than a dozen units were dispatched about 8:30 a.m. to the intersection of South Griffin and Wood streets, according to a police call log. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Corbin Rubinson, a Dallas police spokesman, said in an email that the department\u2019s Explosive Ordnance Squad was called out to investigate a package. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThey were able to clear the package where the item was located and no threat was found,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers were beginning to disperse shortly before 10:45 a.m. as surrounding roads, and the courthouse, reopened to the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No additional information was immediately available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to an intersection of downtown Dallas near the federal courthouse Friday morning over reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,109,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-193531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-downtown-dallas","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}