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Device Not Explosive

INVESTIGATORS CALL CRIME EXTORTION ATTEMPT

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 5:40 a.m.

A member of the Bentonville Bomb Squad leaves the Arvest Bank, Monday Jan, 9, 2012, in Fayetteville after the police and the squad were called out to the bank were a woman reported she had been kidnapped and a bomb strapped to her ankle. She had been lead out earlier after the suspected device looked to have been removed.

The device attached to a woman’s leg Monday in an attempt to drain money from her bank account was not an explosive device, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said Tuesday.

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We have some sick people in NWA!

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January 11, 2012 at 6:24 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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