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West Chester Restaurant Sealed Off After Suspicious Vial Found
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
(5:05 PM ET)
The Cincinnati Enquirer

The quarantine was precautionary.

WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP -- The Cincinnati Enquirer
More than two dozen customers and employees of a Frisch's restaurant were sealed in more than two hours Tuesday afternoon because of a suspicious vial.

Fire trucks and hazardous materials teams filled the parking lot, caution tape was put around it and customers were turned away from the restaurant on Cincinnati-Dayton Road at Interstate 75.

The restaurant was locked down because of a vial with liquid that had been there.

''I was a little shocked,'' said customer Robert Grodsky, 41, of Baltimore. ''I guess it was necessary.''
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Police say the vial was found in the restaurant Monday. An employee tasted the substance and later became ill.

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