Peanut the Squirrel‘s supporters are making it clear they’re pissed NY State officers confiscated and euthanized the animal … by coordinating a number of bomb threats on state authorities workplaces.
The Division of Environmental Conservation is certainly one of 2 businesses that carried out final week’s raid at Mark Longo‘s residence in upstate NY’s Chemung County — however DEC workplaces everywhere in the state have now been evacuated because of the bomb threats.
Sources with the NYPD inform TMZ … there was a bomb risk claiming an explosive machine was planted inside a DEC workplace in Lengthy Island Metropolis … and, cops imagine the risk is expounded to the Peanut the Squirrel case.
Officers stated they believed the bomb threats, none of which turned out to be legit, had been deliberately coordinated. No less than 3,000 DEC staff at a number of workplaces statewide cleared out whereas NY State Troopers searched the buildings.
One other bomb risk focused the DEC workplace in Buffalo … and, cops there inform us the Buffalo PD K9 unit searched the premises and cleared the world. BPD says they’re actively investigating the incident in coordination with the New York State Police and “assessing any potential connections to similar threats reported across the state.”
DEC staff have been instructed to make money working from home Monday and on Tuesday … which can be election day.
As we reported, the DEC and the Chemung County Well being Dept. took Peanut and Fred the Raccoon from Longo’s residence final week, as a result of he did not have the right license to have domesticated wild animals.
In the course of the raid, officers claimed Peanut bit one of many brokers … so that they needed to euthanize the squirrel, in addition to the raccoon, with a purpose to conduct rabies testing. It is unclear if both animal actually did have rabies.
For his half, Longo advised us Peanut has bitten him just a few occasions over the 7 years he had him, and he is by no means contracted rabies.
