Mystery White Powder Letters found at an Elementary School and Restaurant in D.C

An employee of Amidon-Bowen Elementary School discovered a letter containing white powder. The Amidon Bowen faculty member immediately called the police department around 10:00am. That’s when Police arrived at Amidon Elementary at 10:15 blocking off the school with yellow police tape. A few minutes later Special Operations, Firefighters, Hazmat Teams and Ambulance also arrived on the scene.

The parents of students at Amidon-Bowen Elementary were unaware of the emergency scare, except for 35-year old Jiante Johnson the father of Troy Johnson. Troy Johnson is a third grader at Amidon Elementary. The third grader’s father Jiante Johnson found out about the emergency scare from a neighbor driving by Amidon Elementary School on his way to work.

“Whoever did this is a coward. Why would you pick on children like this? This Jerk is putting my son’s life in danger. This isn’t funny at all,” said Johnson.

Before anyone could enter the school, a couple of parents like Johnson found out about the emergency scare from word of mouth, had to wait for the Hazmat teams to announce when it was safe and what exactly was the white powder substance discovered in the envelope by an Amidon employee. After approximately 30 minutes, the Hazard teams announced that it was a false alarm nothing harmful was in the letter found at the Amidon-Bowen Elementary School.

After the 2001 anthrax attacks, detectives and FBI are determined to find out who is the sender behind these letters. Although, FBI and detectives have yet to find out the sender they do know the person is located in Dallas Texas. All of the letters have similar hallmarks referencing Al-Qaeda or the FBI, and all have been addressed with a computer-generate printing label. According to the Washing ton Threat Analysis Center, more than 360 white powder letters have been mailed to schools and building across America since 2007.

An hour after an employee at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School called police regarding the mysterious white powder letter, Bibiana Restaurant at 12th and H Street in Northwest D.C also discovered a white powder letter hallmarked postage from Dallas, Texas. According to the managers at Bibiana Restaurant, no one was harmed which was similar to Amidon-Bowen Elementary School and Wednesday’s white powder letter scare at Oyster-Adams Bilingual School on 19th Street in Northwest.

FBI is looking at these incidents as just minor scares, but is doing further investigation on who is the sender of these mystery letters from Dallas, Texas.