Nevada man threatens to blow up Utah Costco unless minority employees are fired, police say

ST. GEORGE — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Las Vegas man accused of threatening to blow up the St. George Costco if store managers didn’t fire their black and homosexual employees.

Ramchand Rattan, 46, was charged Thursday in 5th District Court with making a threat of terrorism, a second-degree felony, and electronic communication harassment, a class B misdemeanor.

Employees at Costco, 835 N. 3050 East, received four phone calls from a man “who used racial slurs, made threats of violence, and threatened to ‘blast the place,’ ‘light (them) up like a BBQ,’ and send people to the store to handle it, according to prosecutors…

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