By BILL LUCKETT
Star-Tribune capital bureau Friday, October 29, 2004
BILL LUCKETT/Star-Tribune Cheyenne Fire Department Office Manager Marsha Connour, Battalion Chief Jim Martin and Lt. Jeff Pallak talk outside the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle building Thursday afternoon while newspaper employees remain locked down in the building after a worker there found a letter containing an unknown powder.
CHEYENNE -- Employees of Cheyenne's daily newspaper were locked down in their offices Thursday after the building received a piece of mail that included an unknown powder and a letter threatening Gov. Dave Freudenthal's life.
Initial indications were that the powder wasn't dangerous, but more thorough test results were not to be available from the state Department of Health until 8 or 9 p.m. Thursday.
The newspaper received three standard envelopes, all typed and bearing the same return address, according to police.
Cheyenne Police Sgt. Mark Munari said he did not know whether the address was real or not. He would not release the text of the letter or the listed address, but he said it was in Wyoming. The letter also had a Wyoming postmark.
The letter was signed but "not with a regular person's name," Munari said.
A secretary at the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle opened the letter and noticed the release of a powder, and her supervisor read the letter and "found it to be a written threat on the life of the governor," according to a press release from Munari.
He said police got the call just before 9 a.m. Thursday.
A similar letter was found later at KGWN-TV, also in Cheyenne, but the staff had heard about the incident at the newspaper and did not open the letter, officials said.
Freudenthal was taking the threat seriously, but does not seem to be in any danger, according to his press secretary, Lara Azar.
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