CORRECTIONAL OFFICER HURT BY BOMB SENT TO HIS HOME

BY Bob Walsh

A New York state correctional officer was injured by the explosion of a package that had been left at his mailbox.

The officer, who is 52 years old, lived in the small town of Floyd in central New York.

The package was left in or near his mailbox. It exploded when he opened it. The officer has been hospitalized with serious burns.

The town is near the prison at Marcy, but the state has not released information as to whether or not the officer works at the Marcy facility. They have not yet ventured an opinion as to if the bomb was directly related to the officer’s work.

EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s no doubt to me that the package was a surprise gift in appreciation of his fine work supervising a current or former prison inmate.