Peanut the Squirrel‘s supporters are making it clear they’re pissed NY State officers confiscated and euthanized the animal … by coordinating a variety of bomb threats on state authorities workplaces.
The Division of Environmental Conservation is one amongst 2 corporations that carried out last week’s raid at Mark Longo‘s residence in upstate NY’s Chemung County — nonetheless DEC workplaces in every single place within the state have now been evacuated on account of bomb threats.
Sources with the NYPD inform TMZ … there was a bomb threat claiming an explosive machine was planted inside a DEC office in Prolonged Island Metropolis … and, cops think about the chance is expounded to the Peanut the Squirrel case.
Officers acknowledged they believed the bomb threats, none of which turned out to be legit, had been intentionally coordinated. At least 3,000 DEC workers at a variety of workplaces statewide cleared out whereas NY State Troopers searched the buildings.
One different bomb threat targeted the DEC office in Buffalo … and, cops there inform us the Buffalo PD K9 unit searched the premises and cleared the realm. BPD says they’re actively investigating the incident in coordination with the New York State Police and “assessing any potential connections to comparable threats reported all through the state.”
DEC workers have been instructed to work at home Monday and on Tuesday … which will be election day.
As we reported, the DEC and the Chemung County Effectively being Dept. took Peanut and Fred the Raccoon from Longo’s residence last week, on account of he didn’t have the right license to have domesticated wild animals.
In the middle of the raid, officers claimed Peanut bit one among many brokers … in order that they wanted to euthanize the squirrel, along with the raccoon, to have the ability to conduct rabies testing. It’s unclear if each animal really did have rabies.
For his half, Longo suggested us Peanut has bitten him a few events over the 7 years he had him, and he’s certainly not contracted rabies.