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07-03-03, 11:51 AM
Thursday, July 03, 2003
NEW YORK — A parking garage near LaGuardia Airport (search) has been evacuated after a suspicious package and an automatic weapon were found in a car returned to a rental agency near the airport Thursday morning, police said.
The package and the weapon were discovered by workers at the rental car agency on Ditmars Boulevard in Queens (search) when they opened the trunk, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (search) said.
The car was parked on the second deck of a garage at the location.
Police were summoned to the scene at about 10:45 a.m., with Emergency Service Unit squads dispatched to the business as well, said police spokeswoman Carmen Melendez. A bomb squad is also on the scene.
It's possible the situation is a hoax, federal law enforcement told Fox News.
NEW YORK — A parking garage near LaGuardia Airport (search) has been evacuated after a suspicious package and an automatic weapon were found in a car returned to a rental agency near the airport Thursday morning, police said.
The package and the weapon were discovered by workers at the rental car agency on Ditmars Boulevard in Queens (search) when they opened the trunk, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (search) said.
The car was parked on the second deck of a garage at the location.
Police were summoned to the scene at about 10:45 a.m., with Emergency Service Unit squads dispatched to the business as well, said police spokeswoman Carmen Melendez. A bomb squad is also on the scene.
It's possible the situation is a hoax, federal law enforcement told Fox News.