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Suspicious incident on I-70 ends peacefully
A suspicious incident that sparked a call to the Grand Junction Fire Department bomb squad and closed the Loma Port of Entry on Interstate 70 ended uneventfully this afternoon.
Authorities were called to the eastbound I-70 Port of Entry around 11:30 a.m. after the driver and passenger of a semi-truck trailer switched places just before entering the port and the man who became the driver locked himself inside the semi and refused to get out, Colorado State Patrol Master Sgt. Martin Petrik said.
The man was ordered out of the semi at gunpoint, and he and the other man were handcuffed and placed in the back of two State Patrol vehicles, Petrik said.
When asked about the contents of the semi, one of the men said he didn’t know what was in the trailer other than a box that was the size of a car, Petrik said.
Petrik said that description, coupled with the fact that there was a 10,000-pound discrepancy between the weight of the truck listed in paperwork the men had with them and the actual weight of the trailer, caused Port of Entry officers to call the State Patrol, who in turn called the Grand Junction Fire Department bomb squad.
Police searched the trailer and found 42 shrink-wrapped pallets of cardboard boxes that contained plastic bags, Petrik said.
The men were later released.
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