00:00Now to a bomb threat at a Walmart store in Kima.
00:03Fox 26's Leslie Delisboer is there live with the latest.
00:07Leslie.
00:10Yeah, Tom, as you can see, the scene behind me is pretty clear.
00:14I want to step out and give you a look, but that was not the case earlier today.
00:18Here's what we know.
00:19Kima police chief said that a call came in about 4-16,
00:22stating that a man planted three bombs inside the Kima Walmart.
00:25Kima police chief said that a man was using an application or gadget to disguise his voice
00:30and stated that they had 30 minutes to give him $10,000, and if not, he would detonate the bombs.
00:36We spoke with him about an hour ago, and he gave us more details about the incident and other threats
00:40in the area.
00:41Take a listen.
00:42Immediately came to the store, notified the officials here.
00:46They cleared the store out pretty quickly of employees, approximately 70 employees, about 100 customers in the store.
00:52We secured the scene.
00:53We called in a canine, an explosive canine, to come assist.
00:57The search was done in the store, and we found no threats.
01:00Being told, Leak City had two today, and we believe that Seabrook also had one as well,
01:05all about the same time, within 30, 40 minutes each.
01:09We do understand that Leak City actually had one yesterday as well.
01:13At this time, we don't know if it's the same person,
01:15but my investigator will be getting in touch with their investigators to see if we can look into what's going
01:20on.
01:20You tell someone that there's a bomb threat, everybody goes running this day and time.
01:24Again, it's the Black Friday weekend.
01:26Had more people in there than you would normally have on a Sunday night.
01:31So, again, everybody took it seriously, and yet a lot of people that were on high alert.
01:35We take these threats seriously, and when we find out who this person is,
01:38we're going to do everything we can to prosecute.
01:40You put a lot of people in harm's way.
01:43You put everybody on alert.
01:45The neighbors, the community was upset, worried about what was going on here at this location.
01:50And, again, we're going to do everything we can to find the bad guy.
01:55And, again, as I mentioned, this scene was very active earlier today,
01:58but as you can see, things are back to normal here at this Walmart.
02:01Now, the Kima police chief also said that this investigation is active and ongoing
02:05as they work to figure out who the man was behind these bomb threats.
02:09Reporting live in Kima, Leslie Dulles for Fox 26 News.
