WASHINGTON _ Police in Bangor, Maine, are investigating a suspicious letter delivered to Republican Sen. Susan Collins' home there, multiple local outlets reported Monday.
Investigators and a hazmat team responded to a call at 1:39 p.m. Monday about the letter, Bangor Police Sgt. Wade Betters told the Portland Press Herald in a statement.
"Currently we have no information to suggest the public at large is in any danger whatsoever," Betters said.
While Bangor police responded, U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., was the first agency contacted about the letter. Local investigators will eventually hand the case and follow-up over to the Capitol Police.
Collins, who was widely seen as the decisive vote to confirm new Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, was not at home when the authorities arrived, local outlets at the scene reported, though her husband was there.
"Senator Collins' husband is home and she is on her way home," spokeswoman Annie Clark told the Press Herald.
