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 places of work.
The Division of Environmental Conservation is one in every of 2 businesses that performed final week’s raid at Mark Longo‘s house in upstate NY’s Chemung County — however DEC places of work all around 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 gadget was planted inside a DEC workplace in Lengthy Island Metropolis … and, cops consider the risk is expounded to the Peanut the Squirrel case.
Officers mentioned they believed the bomb threats, none of which turned out to be legit, have been deliberately coordinated. A minimum of 3,000 DEC staff at a number of places of work 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 earn a living from home Monday and on Tuesday … which can also be election day.
As we reported, the DEC and the Chemung County Well being Dept. took Peanut and Fred the Raccoon from Longo’s house final week, as a result of he did not have the correct license to have domesticated wild animals.
Throughout the raid, officers claimed Peanut bit one of many brokers … in order 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 informed us Peanut has bitten him just a few occasions over the 7 years he had him, and he is by no means contracted rabies.
