Crime & Safety
Cops: Employee Made Fake Bomb Threat at Lawrence Supermarket
Woman called Brach's Supermarket and claimed there was a bomb in the building, police said.
A Manhattan woman called in a bomb threat at a Five Towns supermarket where she worked, according to Nassau County Police.
Cops said Kristal Huff-Rivers, 20, called Brach’s Supermarket in Lawrence and said, “There’s a bomb in the building, evacuate” three times.
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The incident happened at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Later on, Huff-Rivers was in a break room at the store and admitted to a coworker that she was the person who had called in the threat, police said.
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Huff-Rivers was taken into custody and charged with first-degree falsely reporting an incident. She was arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.
Photo: Kristal Huff-Rivers. Credit: NCPD
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