Peanut the Squirrel Case Sparks Bomb Threats at NY State DEC Workplaces

Peanut the Squirrel‘s supporters are making it clear they’re pissed NY State officers confiscated and euthanized the animal … by coordinating a number of bomb threats on state authorities workplaces.

The Division of Environmental Conservation is one among 2 companies that performed final week’s raid at Mark Longo‘s residence in upstate NY’s Chemung County — however DEC workplaces everywhere in the state have now been evacuated as a result of bomb threats.

Sources with the NYPD inform TMZ … there was a bomb risk claiming an explosive machine was planted inside a DEC workplace in Lengthy Island Metropolis … and, cops imagine the risk is expounded to the Peanut the Squirrel case.

Officers stated they believed the bomb threats, none of which turned out to be legit, had been deliberately coordinated. At the least 3,000 DEC staff at a number of workplaces statewide cleared out whereas NY State Troopers searched the buildings.

One other bomb risk focused the DEC workplace in Buffalo … and, cops there inform us the Buffalo PD K9 unit searched the premises and cleared the realm. BPD says they’re actively investigating the incident in coordination with the New York State Police and “assessing any potential connections to comparable threats reported throughout the state.”

DEC staff have been instructed to do business from home Monday and on Tuesday … which can be election day.

As we reported, the DEC and the Chemung County Well being Dept. took Peanut and Fred the Raccoon from Longo’s residence final week, as a result of he did not have the correct license to have domesticated wild animals.

In the course of the raid, officers claimed Peanut bit one of many brokers … so that they needed to euthanize the squirrel, in addition to the raccoon, to be able to conduct rabies testing. It is unclear if both animal actually did have rabies.