White powder scare evacuates Sebring printing shop

Five employees of The Print Shop were evacuated Monday just before 1 p.m. after receiving a package containing a mysterious white powder that turned out to be meth.

Delores Wright, whose husband owns the store, said Tuesday she had been expecting photos from her brother in Ohio. According to authorities, what she found inside the package was not pictures, but a small baggie containing the white powder.

"I just looked at it and backed up and said, 'Oh (expletive), what is this?'" Wright said.

The five people inside were evacuated as members of the Sebring Police Department, Sebring Fire Department and Highlands County EMS came on scene.

"They (emergency personnel) didn't seem too concerned because if it was anything really bad, they would have kept us inside the building," Wright said.

The Sebring Fire Department's HazMat team suited up and went inside the building to collect the package, according to the incident report. Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr said the state Fire Marshal's office analyzed the powder and determined it was, in fact, methamphetamine.

Investigators from the SPD have since taken over the case. No arrests have been made.

The mail carrier could not give any specific information about the package or where it came from.

Wright said no one in her office sent it, despite the office's return address being in the upper left hand corner.

The package had a North Carolina address listed, but was listed "return to sender," according to Wright.

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