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Maitland FBI, IRS offices evacuated after suspicious device found

MAITLAND, Fla. — A government office complex in Maitland was evacuated after a suspicious device was discovered Tuesday afternoon.

An FBI spokesperson said the office building, on Trafalgar Court, which contains IRS and FBI offices, was evacuated after an FBI employee found a suspcious package in the mail.

The Orange County Sheriff's bomb squad detonated the box just before 2 p.m. in a parking lot of the building.

Those evacuated had not returned to the building at 2 p.m.

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