A threat that arrived Thursday stating an explosive device was in the mailbox at the home of Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, was “unfounded,” police said.

The Biddeford Police Department received the emailed threat and notified Maine Capitol Police on Thursday afternoon, Maine Capitol Police Lt. Steven Trahan said in an email sent to state officials and obtained Friday by the Bangor Daily News.

The threat proved to be unfounded following an investigation from Biddeford police, the FBI and the Maine State Police’s bomb unit and came a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a university in Utah .

The killing of Kirk, 31, was the latest case of political violence in the U.S., with former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and h

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