The FBI and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department are on scene at a post office in south Sacramento investigating the possibility that a mail bomb similar to a dozen others mailed to prominent political figures and news organizations around the country has been found there, authorities say.

“We are investigating reports of a suspicious package in South Sacramento,” sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Shaun Hampton said. “It resembles the ones that have been reported throughout the country.”

Hampton said authorities were called to the Colonial post office in the south Sacramento Parkway neighborhood at 6024 44th St. at 7:44 a.m. Friday after a postal worker spotted a package that resembled others that are part of a nationwide investigation.

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