Police are hesitant to say whether recent bomb threats to grocery stores in Fort McMurray are related. Yesterday, Wood Buffalo RCMP was called to the Stoneycreek Save-On-Foods just before 12 p.m., after someone called the store and said there was a bomb in the building.
“We don’t want to speculate that they’re related until we have solid information that they’re related,” says Const. Kandice Perry.
Mounties evacuated the store and blocked entrances to the Stoneycreek Village commercial area. Initial police scanner reports said the phone number was the same as the one used to call the downtown Safeway last Thursday. An officer said the call was traced to the same Jacksonville, Florida number, but Const. Kandice Perry wouldn’t confirm that.
“We’re still in the process of trying to obtain that information to see if in fact, it is the same individual. So until we have that confirmed, I don’t want to make those speculations,” said Perry.
Police didn’t find any explosive residue at Save-On-Foods, or during their investigation at Safeway last week.
