Authorities say a phone threat over a missing package led to a full lockdown at a St. Louis post office earlier this month, with roughly 75 employees sheltering inside while postal police secured the building.
According to court documents, a man called the post office on the 2900 block of Meramec on June 2 and said he would “shoot up” the building. Postal police responded by locking down the facility, and local investigators later identified and arrested the suspect.
As reported by First Alert 4, court records name the suspect as 33-year-old Tyrone Walker, who is charged with one count of first-degree terrorist threat. Officers were called after an employee reported that Walker phoned in the threat while complaining about a lost package. The worker who answered the call was “concerned and frightened,” according to the records…