A caller from Europe threatened to detonate explosives in Wayne’s Dollar General Friday night unless employees activated Money Gram cards in which they could extort funds.

 
The Dollar General received a bomb threat on Oct. 23 at approximately 6:40 p.m. The threat was reported, and the police responded.

 
The bomb threat was made by a caller who gave the ultimatum that this person would detonate explosives in the store unless employees activated Money Gram cards in which they could extort funds once activated.

 
The person who made the threat was still on the phone by the time officers arrived, and customers were quickly evacuated. The police then did a search of the building and the perimeter which revealed nothing suspicious.

 
Two different phone companies cooperated in this investigation to find that this call originated from Europe through a voice-over IP service (VoIP). The caller also used a “spoof card,” which displayed a fake phone number on the caller ID.

 
After some investigation, the police found that this was not the first time that threats have been made against Dollar General. One report was made as recently as Oct. 11 in Massachusetts.
Dollar General was closed Friday for the safety of employees and customers, but was reopened after the investigation.