
The building is home to president-elect Donald Trump, who was in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday. There’s a ‘suspicious package.’ It’s probably a book,” added Damien Owens.Ī video on Twitter posted by a user named Cielo showed cops waving to people inside the building to get out and crowds running toward the exits onto nearby streets that were packed with holiday shoppers. Re: Suspicious Package at Trump Tower / Evacuation. No word on whether it’s Trump’s package that’s suspicious,” tweeted Ana Maria Montoya. BREAKING: Police say so-called suspicious package that spurred Trump Tower evacuation was a bag containing children's toys The Associated Press (AP) December 27, 2016. “Suspicious package reportedly shuts down Trump Tower. “The suspicious package at Trump Tower has been identified as a tax return and has now been destroyed,” wrote Jeremy Price.

Wags took to Twitter to poke fun at what turned out to be a false alarm. Surveillance video showed that the unidentified boy, who was with his family, had left the yellow backpack behind in the building on Fifth Avenue in Midtown. “All clear at Trump Tower following the earlier suspicious package in the lobby,” an NYPD spokesman announced. when a “suspicious package” was reported in the building’s atrium near Nike Town.Īuthorities took no chances and a bomb sniffing dog was brought in and sat on the package, suggesting it was an explosive.īut further investigation revealed there was no threat. Trump Tower was evacuated Tuesday and the NYPD and FDNY rushed to the scene to investigate - all because a little kid left behind a backpack full of toys, authorities said.
