By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Streets around the Centralia Post Office were blocked off for about three hours this evening after police responded to an unattended suitcase found sitting in the lobby.
It was empty.
Centralia police were called at 5:03 p.m. to the building on the 200 block of Centralia College Boulevard because the lone piece of luggage was suspicious, according to the Centralia Police Department.
The Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad was summoned and after an examination, concluded it contained nothing, Officer John Panco said.
It was a small gray soft-sided bag, according to Panco.
Thy opened it up, it was empty and there was no information indicating who it might have belonged to, he said.
It was just one month ago when a shoe box found sitting on the sidewalk next to the police department brought a response from bomb technicians. It too was empty.