Bomb threat emailed to Oahu synagogue prompts increased security, closure

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaii News Now has learned an emailed bomb threat to the chaplain of a Jewish synagogue at Pearl Harbor triggered beefed-up security and the closure of another place of worship.

With an ethnic slur in its subject line, the one-sentence message read ”alert NCIS: I am going to bomb a synagogue December 30,” and was sent to the Aloha Jewish Chapel on Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on Saturday.

Although the synagogue was scheduled to be closed on Tuesday and military investigators ultimately found the threat not credible, security was placed in and outside the temple, while vehicles were restricted from the grounds…

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