VCSO Looking For Courthouse Bomb Threat Suspect

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DeLand, FL - Investigators hope a set of security camera photos will lead to whoever threatened to bomb the Volusia County Courthouse on Election Day (November 6th).

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office says two threatening phone calls were received by call-takers at the building on 101 North Alabama Avenue in DeLand around three hours before the polls closed.

VCSO spokesperson Laura Williams says one of the calls came in around 3:45 p.m. and the other about 20 minutes later, both indicating that people "were going to die".

"Both callers were male and both stated the incident would occur between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. Wednesday (November 7th)," Williams added. "Early Wednesday, before the courthouse opened to the public, a sheriff’s deputy and his explosives detection K-9 investigated the entire four-floor courthouse. No explosives were found."

Since then, detectives have managed to link a phone number to those calls and that number led VCSO to a Metro PCS store, per Williams.

"A subject came into the store dressed as a construction worker," Williams noted. "The male subject asked to borrow a phone and is shown in surveillance video making a call linked to the phone number used in the calls."

Stills from that video are posted in this article.

Anyone with information is asked to call VCSO Detective Gerald Johnson at (386) 943-7866 or Crime Stoppers at 888-277-TIPS to remain anonymous and possibly qualify for a cash reward.