UWPD, Dane Co. Bomb Squad Investigate Suspicious Object

• Incident date: June 14, 2014, 10:58 am
• Incident type: Bomb Threat
• Location/address: Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR)

On Saturday, June 14 at approximately 10:58 a.m., the UW-Madison Police Department received a call from a concerned citizen who noticed a beeping sound coming from a trash can outside the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research building, 1111 Highland Avenue.  A UWPD officer with an explosives-detecting K9 arrived on scene — he heard the beeping from a distance, and decided it was too dangerous of a situation to investigate.  As a result, the Dane County Bomb Squad responded.

After examining the contents of the trash can, the beeping object was identified —  UWPD K9 Odin went to work, but could not detect any explosives. It was determined that the object — which was some sort of small electronic device — was harmless.

Highland Avenue was closed temporarily to traffic and bus routes — at approximately 11:30 a.m., the street was reopened.