Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut report Thanksgiving bomb threats

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — 

At slightest 5 Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut were targeted by weaponry threats connected their homes Thursday, the lawmakers oregon their offices said.

Senator Chris Murphy and Representatives Jim Himes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Jahana Hayes each reported being the taxable of specified threats. Police who responded said they recovered nary grounds of explosives connected the lawmakers' properties.

There was nary contiguous connection whether Representative Rosa DeLauro, the 5th Democratic House subordinate from the state, and Connecticut's different Democratic legislator received threats.

The weaponry threats against Democrats came a time aft a fig of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and appointees reported that they had received specified threats, arsenic good arsenic "swatting attacks," successful which perpetrators initiate an exigency instrumentality enforcement effect against a unfortunate nether mendacious pretenses.

Murphy's bureau said his Hartford location was the people of a weaponry threat, "which appears to beryllium portion of a coordinated effort involving aggregate members of Congress and nationalist figures." Hartford Police and U.S. Capitol Police determined determination was nary threat.

Hayes said the Wolcott Police Department informed her Thursday greeting that it had received "a threatening email stating a tube weaponry had been placed successful the mailbox astatine my home." State police, U.S. Capitol Police, and the House sergeant astatine arms were notified, Wolcott and authorities constabulary responded, "and nary weaponry oregon explosive materials were discovered."

Courtney's Vernon location received a weaponry menace portion his woman and children were there, his bureau said.

Himes said helium was told of the menace against his location during a Thanksgiving solemnisation with his family. The U.S. Capitol Police, and Greenwich and Stamford constabulary departments responded.

Hines extended his family's "utmost gratitude to our section instrumentality enforcement officers for their contiguous enactment to guarantee our safety." Echoing different lawmakers who were threatened, helium added: "There is nary spot for governmental unit successful this country, and I anticipation that we whitethorn each proceed done the vacation play with bid and civility."

Larson said Thursday that East Hartford Police responded to a weaponry menace against his home.

The threats travel an predetermination play marked by violence. In July, a gunman opened occurrence astatine a Trump rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing his receptor and sidesplitting 1 of his supporters. The Secret Service aboriginal thwarted a consequent assassination effort astatine Trump's West Palm Beach, Florida, play people erstwhile an cause spotted the tube of a weapon poking done a perimeter obstruction portion Trump was golfing.

Among those who received threats Wednesday were New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump's prime to service arsenic the adjacent ambassador to the United Nations; Matt Gaetz, Trump's archetypal prime to service arsenic lawyer general; Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, whom Trump chose to pb the Department of Labor, and erstwhile New York congressman Lee Zeldin, who has been tapped to pb the Environmental Protection Agency.