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By Megan Gildow Updated 3:12 PM Monday, March 1, 2010

NEW CARLISLE — An anonymous call prompted a search and evacuation of the New Carlisle Post Office Monday, March 1, but Clark County Sheriff’s Deputies did not find anything suspicious, according to a press release.

“We’re looking at it as a prank call,” said Sgt. Ralph Underwood.

At 9:20 a.m. Monday, an anonymous caller told a 911 dispatcher there was a bomb in the post office, located at 107 W. Lake Ave.

“There’s a bomb in the New Carlisle Post Office,” the caller said. “I put it there. Boom.”

The caller then hung up; the call could not be traced, according to the sheriff’s office.

“Once we reviewed the tape a few times we realized that it was probably a young person and at that time we started treating it like a prank call,” he said.

Deputies performed an “extensive search” of the building’s exterior — including vehicles in the lot, mail boxes and Dumpsters — and inside the post office, including the building and its contents.

Nothing suspicious was found, according to the release, and deputies had left the scene by 10:30 a.m.

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation into the threat.

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