A note accompanying an incendiary package addressed to the governor and affixed with holiday theme stamps said this, according to law enforcement sources: "Report suspicious activity. Total [expletive]. You have created your own self-fulling prophecy."
Gov. Martin O'Malley told the Baltimore Sun that he could only guess that the sender was angry with overhead highway signs asking people to report suspicious activity. That letter, another one sent to the state transportation secretary and two more false scares in Baltimore created concern across the state on Thursday.
Above, Gregory M. Shipley, a spokesman for the Maryland State Police, holds up the sent sent to the governor. The picture was taken by The Sun's Barbara Haddock Taylor.
Office workers from Annapolis to Baltimore were sent streaming out of office and the downtown courthouse -- the two packages in Baltimore, at the state complex on West Preston Street and the Mitchell Courthouse on North Calvert Street -- were nothing more than boxes filled with office supplies.
We should learn more today, maybe even about a suspect, and whether this person really hated the overhead signs that much.
From today's story: