FBI investigates white powder found at Michigan VA Hospital

FBI investigates white powder at Saginaw Veterans Affairs hospital
MLIVE
By Brad Devereaux
February 14, 2014

SAGINAW, MI — Police and firefighters were alerted when a staff member at the Saginaw Veterans Affairs hospital found a bag containing an unknown white powder, according to police and fire officials.

Staff at Aleda E. Lutz Veterans Affairs Medical Center called the on-site police department about 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, when an employee found the small baggy containing white powder in the hospital's radiology department, Chief of Police Nicholas Amen said.

The department followed county protocol for when a white powder is found, Amen said, and notified Saginaw County Central Dispatch. Police also notified the radiology department and infection control department at the hospital, he said.

The FBI was called as part of the county protocol, and agents planned to come to the facility on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 15, Amen said.
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