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SPD responds to theater bomb threat
Warning called in to Carmike corporate office in Columbus
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Statesboro police cleared the Carmike Cinemas movie theater Friday after a bomb threat was made to the theater’s corporate office in Columbus, Ga.No bomb was found, and the threat was not made locally. Statesboro Public Safety Director Wendell Turner said no one was in the Statesboro theater, but management was called in so police and Georgia Bureau of Investigation bomb technicians could clear the building.“There was no specific threat to any certain theater,” he said. “It was a blanket threat to all locations.”Police, GBI agents, a GBI K-9 unit and Statesboro firefighters responded to the theater behind the Statesboro Mall around 10:45 a.m., he said.Officers taped off the entire Carmike Theaters parking lot as bomb techs cleared the building, and around 12:30 p.m., the theater was deemed safe, he said.Carmike officials alerted the FBI after discovering the threat in a voicemail message Friday morning, said company spokesman Terrell Mayton.
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