Nooses Found at Gas Facility in Calvert County; $250K Reward

BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- The Calvert County Sheriff's Office is investigating an incident where nooses have been located at the Dominion Cove Point facility in Lusby.

Kiewit and the North American Trades Union are working with Dominion, to assist the Calvert County Sheriff's Office in identifying the person or people that are responsible for the acts.

The Trades Union has increased the reward to $250,000 for any member that provides information leading to the identification of the responsible individuals.

"Due to the nature of these events in our community we will investigate this as if it were a crime. We do not typically see these types of things in our County and as a community we will stop it," said Sheriff Mike Evans.

The Sheriff's Office asks that anyone with information that may assist the investigation contact Detective DeFelice at 410-535-2800 or defelinb@co.cal.md.us.