Worker arrested in connection with bomb threats separate
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Posted 11:31AM on Friday, December 6, 2002
CAMILLA - Police say an Albany man accused of making two bomb threats that emptied a Camilla poultry plant made one of the calls because he was running late for work. <br>
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Officials say the two 30-minute evacuations cost tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity for the Equity Group processing plant on U.S. as employees stood outside waiting for work to resume. <br>
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Camilla Police Department investigator Vernon Nobles says the plant was evacuated twice Tuesday to allow searches for explosives. <br>
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Police charged 18-year-old Cleveland Earl Roberts with two counts of transmitting a false public alarm. Each count carries a sentence of up to five years. <br>
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The plant received the first threat at 3 a.m.; the second call was made at 10 a.m. <br>
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Nobles says Roberts admitted making one of the calls because he was late for work.