Greensboro Police Department was quick to respond on Tuesday to what, fortunately, turned out to be a false bomb threat at Citizens’ Bank.
Officers received a dispatch call at around 3:00 that afternoon in reference to a bomb threat that had been called in to the bank. It appears someone called the bank, possibly as a prank, and said that there had been bombs placed at the buildings’ front and back doors.
Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department, along with their bomb-sniffing dog, assisted Greensboro P.D. in making a thorough sweep of the building and parking lot.
“We did a sweep just to make sure that there was no truth,” to the threat, said Greensboro Police Chief Willie Lewis. Lewis said the case was still under investigation.
Even if the incident was only a prank, the Code of Alabama classifies making terrorist threats as a class C felony, punishable with fines and incarceration.