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A suspicious package was identified Thursday afternoon on the Carnegie Mellon campus behind Hamburg Hall. The package, a three-foot-tall silver and green metal cylinder, was spotted by another student in the backseat of a white Toyota Echo belonging to Joel E. Chestnutt, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy. The student immediately called 911.

At about 12:30 p.m., a car belonging to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police chased the suspicious vehicle into the Forbes Avenue driveway and pulled it over in front of Newell-Simon Hall. Shortly thereafter, several unmarked police cars barricaded the suspicious vehicle in front of the Collaborative Innovation Center.

The university did not issue an official evacuation notification, but police briefly locked...

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Comment 1. J C
Apr 24, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Chestnutt is a PhD candidate in Robotics. It's nice to know that poor research by the media starts so early on.

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