Gage County deputies investigate false bomb threat at southeast Nebraska business

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Gage County deputies are investigating after a bomb threat was called in Tuesday at a business near Beatrice, the sheriff’s office said.

Around 7:30 a.m., deputies were sent to a business near Southwest 89th and Hickory Roads on a report of a bomb threat.

When deputies arrived, they learned that someone had called the business, saying that a contract employee was possibly coming to the job site with a gun.

But deputies determined that the employee was working at another plant about a half-mile away, the sheriff’s office said.

That plant’s management said the employee was “behaving normally” and there were no known concerns, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputies and two Nebraska State Patrol troopers then spoke with the employee and found that he did not bring a gun to work.

He also did not have any “ill intent” toward the facility or his co-workers, the sheriff’s office says.

The sheriff’s office told both businesses that no there were no criminal violations.

Deputies are still investigating the bomb threat.