A bomb threat was made on an office in Palmer Square yesterday morning, Borough Police said.
At 10:50 a.m., Borough Police received a call from the office, located at 1 Palmer Square, Borough Police Lt. Dennis McManimon said.
After several searches, officials determined the bomb threat, which was the second in the Borough in 2003, was a hoax.
The name of the tenant who received the threat has not been released. Police said the threat did not make any claims about when the bomb would explode.
The building was evacuated and searched by Borough Police, who also contacted the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. The squad was put on standby, but remained at its quarters and out of the area in case of an explosion, according to PFARS Chief Greg Paulson.
The Princeton Fire Department was also on standby, McManimon said. A bomb dog from the Mercer County Sheriff's Department was also brought in to make a final search, he said.
The search took 40 minutes, said David Newton, vice president of Palmer Square Management, which manages the building where the threat was made. Newton described the ordeal as "totally disruptive . . . If the guy's goal was to be an arsehole, then he succeeded thoroughly."
McManimon said bomb threats in Princeton are rare and follow no patterns.
"Depending on what's going on around the country, we sometimes get a couple" in a short period, he said.
The last bomb threat to occur on campus came on June 7, when a woman called the police and reported that she was in a University building with a bomb. She was eventually located in a conference room in Wallace Hall, but no bomb was ever found. The incident was attributed to "personal disenchantment" with a Princeton employee with whom the woman had worked at Monmouth University.
Bomb threats also delayed a campus speech by Jesse Jackson and forced the evacuation of a graduate apartment in 2001.
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