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BREAKING NEWS: Bomb Threat Reported

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Highlands Today Staff

Published: December 24, 2007

SEBRING – What started as a bad check arrest may have resulted in a bomb threat Monday afternoon at Circuit City in Sebring.

Highlands County sheriff's deputies arrested Shermon Bernetta-Ward, 30, of Orlando. She reportedly passed a bad check.

Deputies say she was trying to buy a TV, a computer, a game system and games when one of the clerks recognized a check that she was trying to use as the same type of check as a man who had been turned away earlier in the day.

The man left the store with that check. Deputies believe the couple arrived at the store in a rented U-haul and are attempting to locate the man for questioning on some possible warrants and in connection with the bomb threat.

The building was cleared visually at 3:40 p.m. and customers were allowed to return inside.
The person who received the call at the store believes it was made by a man, according to the sheriff's office.

Ward was also arrested on multiple out-of-county warrants for the same thing – on charges of writing bad checks in other counties.

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