The FBI believes the man "is no longer a threat," the movie chain's spokesman said.
The man behind a bomb threat that put Carmike locations in Hiram and other parts of metro Atlanta on alert last Friday has been identified, the spokesman for the Columbus movie chain said in a one-sentence statement. "The FBI has identified the person responsible for the bomb threats that occurred last Friday, August 17, 2012 involving Carmike Cinemas and believes he is no longer a threat," Carmike spokesman Terrell Mayton said Thursday. The statement did not mention if the suspect had been arrested. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not offer additional details beyond a short statement of its own. "While the FBI advances its criminal investigation into the threats directed at various Carmike Cinemas," the FBI said in the …
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Threats targeted several metro Atlanta Carmike locations, including Paulding County’s theater, but local authorities found no explosive materials.
Authorities from the city of Hiram, Paulding and Cobb counties responded Friday to bomb threats aimed at Hiram’s Movies 278, but public safety officials found nothing threatening in the search of the facility. Earlier today, officers fanned out to Carmike locations in Atlanta, Canton, Cartersville, Conyers, Cumming, Newnan and Snellville after the movie theater's corporate office received bomb threats from callers who identified themselves as employees of a Carmike vendor, according to WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Theaters in other states also were on alert. “[Our movie theater] received a threat also,” Detective Donald Roberts of Hiram Police Department told Dallas-Hiram Patch. “The management at the store contacted us and…
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Polly Landis
2:13 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
This is so random it could have been any theatre or venue in any city across the U.S. and is probably copy cats who think the Batman killer is cool. NOT!!! So sad that these sickos think it's funny to ruin lives and activities that normal citizens enjoy. Polly more ›