{"id":109320,"date":"2021-02-01T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109320"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:51:01","slug":"oxford-walmart-evacuated-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-walmart-evacuated-after-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Walmart Evacuated After Bomb Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Sunday, January 31, 2021, at approximately 4:00 PM, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> received a\u00a0911 call from <strong>Walmart<\/strong> management who stated that they had a subject inside the store telling customers that\u00a0he planted a bomb inside the store, and that they needed to leave before it went off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers quickly arrived\u00a0 and were directed to the suspect who was trying to leave. An arrest was made without further incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Walmart store was quickly evacuated and a perimeter was set up until additional resources could arrive. Three\u00a0explosives detection canines from other agencies were called to the scene to assist OPD in searching the store.\u00a0 At 7:47 pm, the all-clear was given.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jordan Montrey Williams<\/strong> (26 of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>) was arrested and will be formally charged later today. OPD will release the charges, his picture, and bond after that happens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief <strong>Jeff McCutchen<\/strong> would like to thank the <strong>Oxford Fire Department<\/strong>, the <strong>Ole Miss Police Department<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Lafayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/strong>, the <strong>Mississippi Highway Patrol<\/strong>, the <strong>Panola County Sheriff&#8217;s Department<\/strong>,\u00a0and all the Wal-mart employees for their assistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This investigation is still ongoing and if anyone has any\u00a0 information please call the Oxford Police Department at 662-232-2400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, January 31, 2021, at approximately 4:00 PM, the Oxford Police Department received a\u00a0911 call from Walmart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":109321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[18110,10444,12729,18111,18112,5,6833,12418,4,10442,2092,1760,1759],"class_list":["post-109320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-bomb","tag-bomb-threat","tag-jeff-mccutchen","tag-jordan-montrey-williams","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office-2","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-highway-patrol","tag-ole-miss-police-department","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-fire-department","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-wal-mart","tag-walmart"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wal-mart-Oxford-MS.jpg?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}