Boston Straight Pride Parade will 'very much' go on as planned after suspicious packages were sent
Boston Straight Pride Parade will very much go on as planned after suspicious packages were sent to organizers
Members of the group organizing a Straight Pride parade in Boston in August say they received suspicious packages at their homes in Woburn, Malden and Salisbury on Monday.
Samson Racioppi, grassroots organizer with Super Happy Fun America, said he retrieved a white envelope with what felt like sand from the mail at his home in Salisbury around 1:30 p.m. He said additional envelopes were sent to the groups president, John Hugo, and vice president, Mark Sahady.
I could kind of feel with my fingers that there was something inside of it, like loose, almost like a sand or something. And when I shook it, you could hear it all shaking around inside, he said. It was abnormal, it was clearly abnormal.
Not knowing what was inside, Racioppi said he immediately treated the envelope as a suspicious package.
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