Bomb threat, suspicious package briefly close West Union Wal-Mart

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

A suspicious package found in an Adams County Wal-Mart led to an evacuation of the store late Friday night.

Our news partner, WCPO in Cincinnati, reports the package was found in the cosmetics department of the West Union Wal-Mart shortly before a bomb threat was called into the store around 8 p.m.

A police dog searched the building on Ohio 41 before yielding no bomb and no threat, according to West Union dispatchers.

WCPO reports police say an investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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