Suspect caught from bomb threat at Terrace market

  • Katherine Schiffner<br>For the Enterprise
  • Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:09pm

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Police evacuated up to 75 people the afternoon of Oct. 30 from a shopping center here where a man allegedly threatened to blow up a QFC, officials said.

No one was hurt in the incident, but police shut down the QFC and a dozen surrounding businesses for nearly two hours while Washington State Patrol bomb technicians searched the grocery store, located at the corner of 228th Street SW and 44th Avenue W.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Mountlake Terrace man on suspicion of making a bomb threat, Mountlake Terrace Sgt. Craig McCaul said.

No explosives were found inside the store or in a backpack discovered at a nearby bus stop, McCaul said.

Jodi Harse, 35, of Mountlake Terrace frequently shops at QFC and was surprised to see fire engines and police cars parked outside the store.

“I wish it would just end. I don’t know why people do this,” Harse said.

She arrived at the store about 5:45 p.m., just as police were pulling back crime scene tape and the store was reopening.

Police and firefighters responded to the store about 4 p.m. Oct. 30 after the man “began making threats he was going to kill people and blow up the store,” McCaul said.

The man reportedly made the threats after telling a store clerk he was not feeling well, McCaul said.

Employees were able to detain the man until officers arrived, McCaul said.

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