There was several people standing out there.

We went in the house and cleared it, and found nothing. It was a prank.

As bad as it was, it could have been worse.

It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his girlfriend, so we had to secure the streets all around the house.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

Apparently these people did not have the means to acquire those items except through illicit purposes, and that's why they were recovered.