Scottsdale city employees this afternoon got an email saying that two suspects had been arrested in the 2004 bombing of the city’s diversity office. The text of the email is after the jump. For more information on the arrests of Dennis and Daniel Mahon, please see Heat City’s exclusive report posted earlier today.
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:29 PM
To: ALL CITY STAFF
Subject: HotLine No. 353 — 2004 bombing incident arrestsFederal agents earlier today arrested two suspects for the February 2004 mail bombing that seriously injured two employees of Scottsdale’s Office of Diversity & Dialogue.
The two suspects were arrested in the state of Illinois, where they are being arraigned today. The arrests are the first in the case since the bombing incident more than five years ago.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, will be announcing details of the indictments and arrests of the two suspects for conspiring to commit and carrying out the delivery of an explosive device to the city office.
More details will be made public at a press conference tomorrow morning being held by the office.
We’ll provide more information as the details of the indictments are announced.