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Courtroom evacuated after bomb threat at Aaron Hernandez trial

The ongoing Aaron Hernandez trial was interrupted Thursday when the Fall River Division of the Bristol County Superior Court received a bomb threat.

The courtroom was evacuated at around 12:08 p.m. ET.

Employees were allowed back into the courthouse a little less than an hour later. The trial will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET.

Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end, is on trial for the murder of semipro football player Odin Lloyd in 2013. Thursday was Day 35 of the trial, where the prosecution is still making their case.

Another bomb threat was called in to Superior Court in Taunton, which is less than 20 miles from Fall River, according to the Taunton Gazette.

According to the Twitter feeds of Bob McGovern of the Boston Herald and Brian Fraga of the Herald News of Fall River, jurors in the Hernandez trial went to the UMass Dartmouth building nearby, with the doors protected by two court officers, while Lloyd's family and Hernandez's lawyers waited out the bomb threat at coffee shops near the courthouse.

Judge E. Susan Garsh admonished the media for possibly taking pictures of the jurors, McGovern said.

Law enforcement was brought in to investigate the threat and clear the area.

McGovern said in similar cases, defendants are put into the transport van in which they arrived to the courthouse.

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