Man finds lost phone in Walmart bathroom, then makes bomb threat with it, Florida cops say


When the phone’s owner got a notification on his smartwatch that a call was coming from 911, he used his watch to ping his phone and found it in the Walmart bathroom, the sheriff’s office said. He had left it behind, according to deputies, and someone else had found it before using it to call in the bomb threat. — Unsplash

A man whose phone had gone missing learned he left it in a Walmart bathroom when it was used to call in a fake bomb threat, Florida deputies said.

Dispatchers received a call around 3pm on Jan 12 from someone claiming there was a bomb inside a Port Charlotte Walmart Neighborhood Market, according to a Jan 16 news release from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.

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