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A Moscow Mills man will be arraigned Nov. 16 on a charge of making a terrorist threat.
Fifty-three-year-old Donald Eugene Merrill is accused of making a bomb threat at the Troy Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Merrill worked at the store and allegedly phoned in the threat at 9:16 p.m. Aug. 9.
No explosives were found, but the manager told authorities the store lost an estimated $45,000 during the more than two hours in which it was evacuated and closed while a search was done.
In a probable cause statement, Troy Police investigator James Patton said Merrill admitted calling the store.
A clerk told authorities "the male caller was calm but did state ‘This is not a joke. I put a bomb in the store an hour and a half ago' and then the caller hung up," Patton wrote.
Police said they traced the 20-second bomb threat to a cellphone registered to Merrill.
The suspect is free on bond with the stipulations that he not enter a Wal-Mart or talk to any of the retailer's employees.
A Moscow Mills man will be arraigned Nov. 16 on a charge of making a terrorist threat.
Fifty-three-year-old Donald Eugene Merrill is accused of making a bomb threat at the Troy Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Merrill worked at the store and allegedly phoned in the threat at 9:16 p.m. Aug. 9.
No explosives were found, but the manager told authorities the store lost an estimated $45,000 during the more than two hours in which it was evacuated and closed while a search was done.
In a probable cause statement, Troy Police investigator James Patton said Merrill admitted calling the store.
A clerk told authorities "the male caller was calm but did state ‘This is not a joke. I put a bomb in the store an hour and a half ago' and then the caller hung up," Patton wrote.
Police said they traced the 20-second bomb threat to a cellphone registered to Merrill.
The suspect is free on bond with the stipulations that he not enter a Wal-Mart or talk to any of the retailer's employees.
