Bomb-bot Sent After “Foreign Object” at Figueiredo’s

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About 3:40 p.m., an employee at Figueiredo’s Video Store on Harris spotted a suspicious object. Jeff Friedman Shift Supervisor at Figueiredo’s described the item as a long tubular thing with wires or colored string coming out of it.

Law enforcement closed the store and employees were eventually asked to vacate the building. “There were cop cars blocking the store,” said Friedman. Harris and Union Streets were blocked.

“We heard a bang around 6:45 p.m. [It was] the Bombbot doing its job,” he added.

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Mark Milligan, who provided the photos to the RB, described the sound as “pretty loud but not as loud as the booms.”

Friedman said that the item appeared to have been innocuous. “Tonight,” he said, “We’ll be watching the Hurt Locker.”

The store is open for business and law enforcement, he said, have left.

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Ernie Branscomb
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8 years ago

We drove dowwn Harrris while they were still staging. They were making people walk around, or on the other side of the street. We noticed that they were standing away from the front of the building. A fire truck was parked down the street. No one seemed to be particulary alarmed. It almost looked like somekind of a drill. Now we know the rest of the story. We were looking for a place to eat. The town restaurants all seemed the be full. We finally ended up at Adell’s. We no more than set down to eat and there was a person ran a red light and tee-boned a car. The guy that got hit came into the restaurant to wait for a ride home. Everybody seemed okay.
I know, TMI.

Ernie Branscomb
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8 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

It was kind of funny. As we drove by I told my wife to go to Redhead Blackbelt and find what’s happening. :+)

Amber McMahan
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Amber McMahan
8 years ago

Great comments guys. My daughter lives the area of the wreck. It was big news at her house. So I am assuming it was not a bomb.

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