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Package with white powder mailed to Katie Hill’s office, prompting evacuation

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Katie Hill

PALMDALE – An investigation was launched Monday after a white powder was mailed to a field office of former Rep. Katie Hill, who resigned last week.

The Palmdale Sheriff’s Station received a report around noon on Monday, Nov. 4, that a suspicious package containing a white powder-like substance was received at the office in the 1000 block of Avenue M-14, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

The building was evacuated and one employee complained of irritation, but preliminary tests showed the substance was non-hazardous, authorities said. Further tests will be done to determine the source of the substance, a deputy said.

The sheriff’s department, county fire department hazardous materials personnel and the FBI, which is now handling the investigation, responded to the scene. Some roads were closed in the area for about four hours, according to the sheriff’s department.

Hill, an openly bisexual Democrat, resigned her seat after nude photos of her were published and news emerged that she had a three-way relationship with her husband and a campaign staffer. She was also accused of having an affair with a member of her congressional staff, which she has denied.

Hill, 32, has repeatedly blamed her husband for the public release of the photos. While speaking in Congress on Thursday, Oct. 31, Hill decried a “misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.”

She formally stepped down from her congressional seat on Friday, Nov. 1.

The 25th Congressional District includes the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, and portions of northern San Fernando Valley and eastern Ventura County.

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10 comments for "Package with white powder mailed to Katie Hill’s office, prompting evacuation"

  2. I think she just wanted to stick her toes in the political pool so she can brag about how deep she was in it at the genius bar.

    • Katie will be fine when this blows over Alby. She’s a tough cookie but you’ll still be you.

      • At least I don’t wear the valor of family members. That’s lame. I will still be me and you will still be spent.

        • That was a major argument for me as well, that she kept using her father’s and grandfather’s service as some sort of endorsement of who she is. Turned off a lot of people that have served.

          • Y’know folks. Katie Hill was a young newbie and messed up and resigned.

            What accounts for experienced elected officials like Sen. Lindsey Graham who has lost his mind yet is still in the Senate and will vote to convict or not after the Impeachment?

            Where is the concern about all those impotent GOP congressman and women who are so scared to criticize Trump that they are derelict in fulfilling their constitutional duties? Not here.

            That’s okay. Things are moving in the right direction anyway.

            He’s not the only older yet crazier and more dangerous elected official than anything Katie Hill was.

            The GOOD NEWS is that yesterday’s election turned Virginia blue and a Democrat beat an incumbent Republican in Kentucky for governor. Since Trump has been in office, 8 states have flipped from Republican to Democrat.

            Keep those rallied comin” Donald. I bet any Republican that dares to run for Hill’s Vicente seat will not have Trump at his/her side. He’s toxic.