Caught On Camera: Man Places Fake Bomb Outside Of Jewelry Store In Howard County

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Video shows a fishy placing a bundle astatine the doorway of Sergio’s Fine Jewelers on with a enactment demanding jewelry and currency connected Oct. 1.

Inside the box? A instrumentality that looked similar a weaponry caused constabulary to evacuate the full plaza.

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“The bull came successful and said this is not a drill everybody needs to evacuate,” Michelle Luedtke said.

“The weaponry squad came and the weaponry robot. There were weaponry dogs sniffing everywhere. There was drones going up supra checking the buildings and everything,” said McKensey Cleppin.

At first, Michelle Luedtke who works astatine the Dog Wash didn’t deliberation thing of it was existent until constabulary had them determination farther distant from the jewelry store.

“When they pushed america further backmost I was similar good something’s real!” Luedtke.

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“If you saw Sergio’s past you were successful information of being hurt,” Cleppin said.

The authorities occurrence marshal weaponry squad determined the weaponry was a fake. Now, Howard County Police are releasing video hoping to find the fishy on with photos of the achromatic NASA sweatshirt they wore and images of the car they drove — a achromatic Mercedes Benz sedan.

“We were extracurricular from 10:45 until astir 4:30 earlier we were fto backmost into the building,” said Luedtke.

But backmost astatine the Bethany Square Plaza, McKensey Cleppin, a receptionist astatine Signature Salon says she indispensable person walked by the container connected her mode to enactment that greeting and it scares her to deliberation what could person happened if the weaponry was real.

“I indispensable person passed it, I indispensable person that’s a small concerning,” Cleppin added.

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Police are offering a $1,500 reward for immoderate accusation starring to assistance place the suspect.

Annie Rose Ramos