SALEM, N.H. (WHDH) — Nearly a dozen New England K-Marts have received bomb threats in the past week and now one store manager is talking about what happened.
“We received a call at about quarter past two today threatening us that there was a bomb in the building. The person definitely had an overseas accent. Basically he wanted 10 of these credit cards with $500 loaded on each one. ‘Or else I’ll detonate these three bombs,'” Steve Perkins, the manager at K-Mart in Salem, N.H. said.
On Monday K-Mart stories in Salem, Tewksbury, Newburyport and South Attleboro all received similar threats. Last Friday six more stores were all searched after a caller threatened them with similar demands.
“It’s just an inconvenience that some people took this seriously and believed that there were actually bombs and it turns out that even though there weren’t that affects people. It’s a criminal act,” Salem N.H. police sergeant Jason Smith said.
The state police bomb squad spent two hours sweeping the Salem K-Mart on Monday. No bomb was found but nerves were frayed.
“They make prank calls thinking it’s funny and it’s not. It’s very serious. It does tie up resources. It affects people that may have lived through things like Boston. This is the last thing they want to hear,” Smith said.