SUFFOLK, Va. — (Editor's Note: The video above is from a previous story about bomb threats)
Someone phoned in a bomb threat Sunday afternoon to a warehouse facility in Suffolk on Sunday afternoon forcing an evacuation and a search.
According to a spokesperson for Suffolk Fire and Rescue this incident began shortly before 4 p.m. when a call was received by Newport News Dispatch from someone saying that there "multiple devices" in a warehouse at 375 Kenyon Road in Suffolk that would go off at exactly 5 p.m.
Newport News dispatch transferred the call to Suffolk Dispatch which then called Suffolk Fire and Rescue out to the location. They in turn contacted Virginia State Police, which dispatched a bomb detection K9 to the scene.
The K9 swept the facility and it was deemed clear of any device. The facility was then turned back over to the owners.
The occupant of the building is listed online as NFI - California Cartage Co., which is a logistics/transportation/warehousing company.
Although seemingly unrelated, this threat came less than a week after two bomb threats were made against Lakeland High School, which is about 1/2 mile away from the warehouse. In the first of those cases, a student was charged with making the threat.
There is an active investigation underway to determine who phoned in the bomb threat. One possible clue comes from the fact that the caller must have been within NN city limits when he called 9-1-1 for it to have been received by Newport News Emergency Dispatch.