ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police are investigating two bomb threats to CVS stores that involved a demand for prepaid credit cards.
Police said someone called the pharmacy’s Holcomb Bridge and Alpharetta Highway branches early Saturday morning and told store employees there was a bomb in a car outside, and demanded they load prepaid Green Dot Visa cards and leave them outside.
“They knew better and called the police,” Officer Zachary Frommer of the Roswell Police Department said of the store employees. “Right now we’re working on a few leads trying to develop some suspects.”
Frommer said Homeland Security officials were now involved because of these cases and a similar one in Atlanta.
Frommer said his department has been investigating a number of scams involving Green Dot cards, mainly involving someone threatening to arrest an unsuspecting caller for unpaid tickets or taxes, and telling the would-be victim to fund a card and send them the account information.
“When you start threatening bombs and violence, you’re taking it to a whole new level,” Frommer said. “The Green Dot scams are out of control, but this takes it to a whole new level.”
Customer Ivan Darien said the threats were concerning.
“I think we need to do something about that really quickly,” he said. “It’s pretty scary. Who knows if these guys are true or what’s going on.”
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