Trinity Receives Bomb Threat
Published 1:38 pm Tuesday, May 12, 2015
PRINCE EDWARD — County sheriff’s deputies were called to Trinity Mission Health & Rehab of Farmville on May 7 following the report of a bomb threat.
According to the press release from the County Sheriff’s Office, “Dominique Whitehead, age 33, was arrested and charged at the scene.” Court records confirm a Class five felony warrant of arrest was executed for Dominique Natoya Whitehead, alleging that she “…did unlawfully and feloniously in violation of…Code of Virginia: communicate…information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of a peril of bombing, burning, destruction or damage to a place of assembly, building or structure, or a means of transportation.”
According to the release, “a sticky note was found in a residential room” which “claimed that a bomb was in the building.” And the residents of facility were evacuated.
“They took every last one…out there,” Sheriff Wesley Reed told The Herald. “The whole 110…evacuated all…Beds, wheel chairs and all. That’s their policy.”
In addition to the sheriff’s office, The Virginia State Police, Farmville Police Department and Prince Edward Rescue Squad responded to the scene, the release stated. The State Police Bomb Canine Unit was also on the scene.