BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A state prosecutor's office in Bridgeport has again been the target of a white powder scare, one of two such incidents in the area Monday.
A secretary handling mail in office of the state's attorney opened an envelope Monday that contained an unknown white powder.
The office was evacuated and the state Department of Environmental Protection and the FBI were called in.
The same office was involved in the same sort of incident two years ago when the same secretary opened an envelope of white power. The substance turned out to be baby powder.
Last month Noel Davila, 33, of Bridgeport, was convicted by a federal jury of sending that envelope on Aug. 20, 2002, from the Cheshire Correctional Center, where he was serving a sentence. He faces a life sentence when he is sentenced in September.
While the envelope in Monday's incident has a return address of the Cheshire Correctional Center, police said there are indications it originated at the MacDougall Correctional Center where Davila is incarcerated.
The envelope and white powder were collected to be sent to the state Department of Public Health laboratory for analysis.
While police were investigating the incident, they received a call that white powder also had been found at the Chase Bank on Main Streetin Stratford.
Assistant Fire Chief Paul Gazso said a teller was recording the weekend deposits and dumped the contents of a deposit bag on a desk when some white powder came out.
Firefighters were called to the bank in addition to town police, state police, the DEP and FBI.
Gazso said customers were evacuated from the bank and the area around the desk was cordoned off.
``We couldn't get anything positive on the powder and it was taken to the state lab for analysis,'' Gazso said.
