Deputies evacuate Longview community before determining no explosive device was present
Residents in a Longview-area manufactured home community were evacuated Wednesday morning after a reported bomb threat in unincorporated Weld County, but authorities say the situation has been safely resolved with no explosive device found.
According to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded at 10:09 a.m. on Feb. 11 to the 11100 block of Yosemite in the Longview Manufactured Home Community near Longmont. A caller reported that a man was standing next to a shed, waiting for police, and allegedly claimed he had a bomb inside a backpack. The man then placed the backpack on the ground near a tree…