Two men in their 60s have been arrested in connection Thursday morning’s bomb threat against George Town Police Station. The men from Cayman Brac were arrested between 11.15 and 11.40am.
The 911 Emergency Communications Centre received a call around 9.40am from a man reporting that a bomb was at George Town Police Station. A thorough search of the building was carried out and the all clear was given at around 10.45am.
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Under the penal code (2006 revision), anyone who communicates any information which he knows or believes to be false with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that a bomb or other thing liable to explode or ignite is present in any place or location whatever is guilty of an offence and liable upon conviction to $10,000 fine and/or imprisonment for ten years.
It was the second threat in as many days.
A phoney bomb threat caused the George Town police station to be evacuated early Wednesday morning and forced police to close down roads into town.
Police said communications staff at the station got an anonymous call on the police switchboard from someone who claimed a bomb had been placed under a car in the station’s front parking lot on Wednesday.
The police K-9 Unit was called out shortly after the 6.15am Wednesday report. A police Labrador trained in locating explosives searched the entire compound. The Cayman Islands Fire Service also carried out a search before the all clear was given at 7.40am.
Elgin Avenue was closed to traffic while the search was completed.
Deputy Police Commissioner Rudolph Dixon said despite the apparent hoax, the Royal Cayman Islands Police will always take such incidents extremely seriously.
‘The person responsible for this act should know that we will be tracking them down,’ Mr. Dixon said. ‘The time that officers spend dealing with hoaxes such as this is time that could be better spent tackling crime.’
Tuesday’s incident is not the first time police have been forced to respond to a bogus bomb scare.
In late June, officers were called to Owen Roberts Airport after a vehicle in the airport car park was found wrapped in crime scene tape.
Again, a protective perimeter was set up around the area while police searched the vehicle. It was eventually discovered that the vehicle owner’s friends had taped up the sport utility vehicle as a practical joke and never intended to cause a scare.
Police interviewed a 29-year-old man about the incident, but no charges were filed.
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