All Clear at MIA Terminal After Package Found
Suspicious package turned out to be passenger's luggage
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Authorities have given the all clear for passengers to return to a Miami International Airport concourse that was evacuated after a suspicious package was found Monday afternoon.
Around 2:40 p.m., Concourse F was shut down as the Miami-Dade bomb squad investigated the suspicious package, which turned out to be a piece of luggage with a note left behind by a passenger, MIA spokeswoman Maria Levrant said.
A man has been detained but it does not appear that he will be charged with a crime, Miami-Dade Police Det. Roy Rutland said.
The package was found by a Transportation Security Administration employee near a checkpoint, Levrant said.
Hundreds of people with luggage lined the sidewalks outside the terminal as dozens of police cars blocked traffic to the drop off lanes in front of concourses E, F and G.
By 3:42 p.m., authorities told the waiting passengers it was safe to go back into the terminal.
During the scare, only two departing flights were delayed and arriving flights were reroute to neighboring concourses, spokesman Greg Chin said.
