Bomb threat scam hits Cookeville

[Ian David]

Bomb threat scam hits Cookeville
Mary Jo Denton
Herald-Citizen Staff

COOKEVILLE -- Telephoned bomb threat scams have occurred across the country in recent weeks -- and early this morning, it happened in Cookeville, police said.

Someone called a convenience store here and convinced the clerk that a bomb had been planted in the store and would go off if the clerk did not immediately wire money to a certain location.

It happened around 5:45 a.m. at the Conoco Bread Box store at Buffalo Valley Road and W. Jackson St., said Cookeville Police Capt. Nathan Honeycutt.

The clerk in the store, a young man, received a phone call from a man with a foreign-sounding accent telling him that a bomb in the store was set to explode if he did not wire cash.

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