Credit union threatened, but no bomb found

Published 12:00 am Thursday, December 30, 1999

L’Observateur / December 30, 1999

BOUTTE – Taft Carbide Federal Credit Union, on U.S. Highway 90 in Bouttewas targeted by a false bomb threat Wednesday afternoon, according to the St. Charles Sheriff’s Office.Lt. Dwayne LaGrange reported that a teller got a phone call at 3:09 p.m.when a elderly male voice told her there was a bomb in the building.

“Which building?” the teller asked.

“The building where you are,” the caller said and immediately hung up.

The call apparently originated from a cellular or pay phone, LaGrange said.

The teller told her supervisor, who ordered the building evacuated. Theyphoned the sheriff’s office from a nearby business.

The sheriff’s office then tried contacting the bomb squad of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, with no success.

LaGrange said officers decided to enter and search the building, using a K- 9 team. Nothing suspicious was found during the 4:25 p.m. walk-through,and the business was closed for the afternoon.

Return To News Stories