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Thursday, July 15, 1999 | 9:32 a.m.
The Albertson's store on Fifth Street was evacuated around 10 a.m. Wednesday after the store received a call from a man who threatened to detonate a bomb if employees did not leave him the store's cash outside.
A suspicious device found in a small box turned out to be an elaborate fake.
"It was a hoax," said police Lt. Hal Wood. "It was elaborately put together by someone to look like a bomb."
Later in the day, a Longs Drug store and a 7-11 store received similar threats.
Police have no suspects.
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