A suspicious backpack that a Jefferson County at the Denver Federal Center after a woman announced it contained a bomb held her birth certificate, driver’s license and tax and other documents, according to a court document.
“There is a bomb in the bag,” Jessica Ciccocioppo, told guards, after placing a light-colored backpack on the ground in front of Gate 1 at the facility in Lakewood, according to the document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver.
She repeated the statement when a security guard asked what she had said and three guards “retreated behind their guard station and then reported the incident.”
Her threat led to a lockdown at the federal center and the closure of Kipling Street between Sixth and Alameda avenues for about three hours.
The bomb squad was called and detonated the backpack but then determined it didn’t contain explosives.
With a blast, technicians blew the backpack to bits. See the video & more:
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Ciccocioppo told a Federal Protection Service officer who took her into custody that her vehicle was parked at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store about 1.5 miles from the Federal Center.
Nothing suspicious was found in her vehicle.
