{"id":241554,"date":"2025-10-21T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241554\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:54:11","slug":"breaking-wyoming-state-capitol-evacuated-after-report-of-possible-ied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241554\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Wyoming State Capitol evacuated after report of possible IED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHEYENNE, Wyo. \u2014 The Wyoming Highway Patrol recently announced that the State Capitol Building in Cheyenne has been evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a social media post from the WHP, which states that it is investigating \u201can ongoing situation\u201d at the State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we are investigating an ongoing incident at the Capitol,\u201d Aaron Brown, public information officer with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, told Oil City News. \u201cWe had a report of a possible IED. We evacuated the Capitol building and we are asking people to avoid the area as we investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown emphasized that the report is of a suspected IED and that nothing has been confirmed as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo confirmation of an actual IED just yet,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIt\u2019s simply suspected at the moment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Oil City News will continue to monitor this situation and will update this story with more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHEYENNE, Wyo. \u2014 The Wyoming Highway Patrol recently announced that the State Capitol Building in Cheyenne has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-241554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}