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Lockdown at Jacksonville Federal Courthouse blamed on scanner mistake

For 30 minutes it had the feeling of a real emergency.

The Federal Courthouse in downtown Jacksonville was locked down Monday around 8am while the U.S. Marshal Service investigated a "live shooter" call on the their scanners.

It was actually a drill at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Brunswick.  The radio scanners were bleeding into Northeast Florida.

We're told the Marshal Service secured the courthouse as a precaution for about half an hour bef0re clearing the scene. 

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