Lawrence Township Cops Working With Federal Agents to Investigate 'Suspicious White Powder' Postal Scares

As part of their follow-up investigation to the , Lawrence Township police are working with the United States Postal Inspection Service and Wayne Township Police, Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar has confirmed.

On June 2, a state Motor Vehicle Commission facility on Route 46 in Wayne received an envelope containing a “white powdery substance” that prompted a response from Passaic County emergency personnel who eventually determined that material was harmless and just baking soda, .

Edgar said authorities are looking for possible connections between the envelope in Wayne and the one in Lawrence on May 23.

In that incident, as already reported by Lawrenceville Patch, white powder spilled from an envelope that broke open while it was going through a machine used to sort mail in the office of ACS State and Local Solutions in Building 5 of the office complex at 3131 Princeton Pike.

ACS is subcontractor for the state that handles mail addressed to various New Jersey government agencies and the envelope was addressed to the state Motor Vehicle Commission.

Several ACS workers were quarantined and the rest of the building was evacuated while members of the Trenton Fire Department’s hazardous materials team analyzed the substance.

It was determined to be baking soda, and Lawrence Township police at the time said they suspected that whoever filled the envelope and sent it through the mail was deliberately trying to prey on people’s memories of the 2001 anthrax attacks and cause a panic.