NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
March 14, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

 

REWARD UPPED FOR INFORMATION ON BOMB THREAT CALLER 

     The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is increasing the reward being offered for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of an individual or individuals responsible for a rash of bomb threats. Sheriff Charlie Morris says as of March 14th 2008, the reward stands at $4000. 

    The Shalimar Courthouse Annex was evacuated and searched after the Clerk of Court’s office received a bomb threat just after 2 p.m. Friday. It was the second such call to the annex in the past thirty days and the latest in a rash of nearly a dozen such threats to other area locations in the past few months.

      Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers will also pay a reward of up to one-thousand dollars for information that leads to an arrest.  Please call 850-863-TIPS or 850-651-740

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