Crime & Safety

Police Respond to Bomb Threat at Wynnsong 15 Cinemas in Mounds View

Several Carmike theaters have received bomb threats in recent weeks.

Mounds View police responded this morning to a bomb threat at Wynnsong 15 cinemas.

Firefighters and police responded to the theater, and have since cleared.

The bomb threat was a “vague, general threat” initially received by the Carmike corporate office, Mounds View police chief Tom Kinney said.

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Kinney said Mounds View police used bomb-sniffing dogs to searched the outside and inside of the theater before it opened today as a “precautionary check."

The theater will stay open as usual, and Kinney said no one needs to change their movie-watching plans.

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