Middletown Target Evacuated Over Fake Bomb Threat

Middletown, NJ - The Middletown Target store on Rt. 35 was briefly evacuated Saturday evening after someone called in a bogus bomb threat there, police said.

“It was a fake bomb threat. The store made the decision to evacuate briefly when the store was checked,” said Deputy Chief Steve Dollinger of the Middletown Police. “The threat was false.”

The Target store was evacuated just before 7 p.m. Saturday. This is not the first fake bomb threat called in to the store.

Last month, the AMC Theater complex at the Freehold Raceway Mall was evacuated twice in one week after a disgruntled employee called in two fake bomb threats. That employee turned out to be a local Middletown man. Jesse Carroll, 22, was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree public false alarm. Read more about how he was arrested here.

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