No hazard found after suspicious package call at Boyer’s
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - A State Police bomb squad member stands by at the entrance to Boyer's Food Markets in Shenandoah on Sept. 18, 2023.
SHENANDOAH – A suspicious package found at the Boyer’s Food Markets location on the west end was not hazardous, borough police told the Sentinel Monday afternoon.
Borough police were called around midday to the West Centre Street grocer for a reported suspicious package.
A State Police bomb squad was called in, as well as the Shenandoah Fire Department, Frackville EMS, Shenandoah Valley School District Police, and additional state troopers.
Shenandoah Police Patrolman Cody Applegate told the Sentinel that no hazard was found after the bomb squad’s checks.
Boyer’s, based in Orwigsburg, said in a statement that the package was found in a trash can, and the store was promptly closed.
“This is being done out of extreme caution for our customers as well as our team,” the chain said in a Facebook post. “We will post again once authorities give us the all clear to reopen.”
The store reopened around 2:30pm, the store chain posted.
No arrests were made in connection to the threat, though a man was taken into custody after he rode a bicycle past barricades to the front door of the store.
He was confronted by borough police and told to leave and was taken into custody when he didn’t.
Drug paraphernalia charges are pending against the man, who was not identified Monday afternoon.
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