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WEST CHESTER TWP. (AP) – West Chester police and the Butler County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad detonated three suspicious briefcases found outside the door at the local office of House Speaker John Boehner Sunday morning, finding no explosives.

A township officer spotted the black briefcases around 11:30 a.m.

Only papers were inside the briefcases, according to township officials.

Boehner’s Cincinnati-Dayton Road office has been the scene of several protests in recent weeks.

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WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) — Briefcases with handwritten signs attached were left at the front door of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s (BAY’-nurz) Ohio office, bringing out a bomb squad.

Investigators in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester tell multiple media outlets that the bomb squad blew the cases apart on Sunday and found they contained only papers. No one was hurt.

WCPO-TV reports the signs were on colored paper and included messages with the words “jobs,” ”oil” and “gas.” A West Chester officer on patrol first noticed the briefcases outside the Republican congressman’s office late Sunday morning.

Boehner spokeswoman Brittany Bramell said that investigators’ “vigilance and efforts” were appreciated.