Crime & Safety

Bomb Threat Made to DC Anti-Defamation League Office: Report

BREAKING: The D.C. office was part of a wave of bomb threats made nationwide Tuesday morning.

WASHINGTON, DC — A wave of telephoned bomb threats have been made to Anti-Defamation league offices in numerous cities, including in Washington, D.C., the ADL said in a statement on Tuesday.

It's the latest in a string of bomb threats made against Jewish organizations in recent weeks, and the ADL says they've gotten 121 threats since early January.

"Four ADL offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington D.C. received telephoned bomb threats today," the ADL statement reads. "This is not 'normal.' We will not be deterred or intimidated. The threats were in addition to threats to at least four JCCs and one day school in Oregon, Wisconsin, New York, Florida and Maryland."

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The D.C. branch of the Anti-Defamation League is located at 1100 Connecticut Avenue NW.

The ADL National Twitter account said at 10:17 a.m. that they had received "multiple" bomb threats, and law enforcement was responding.

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The Jewish Community Center Association also issued a statement saying they had received emailed or phoned-in bomb threats overnight and Tuesday morning.

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