No explosives were found when a bomb squad responded to a shopping center in Spring Hill Wednesday. The scene has now been cleared.
Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis says a county worker called 911 around 8 a.m. after seeing a suspicious package near a bus stop and the Twistee Treat ice cream shop at the Mariner Square Shopping Center located at Cortez Boulevard/SR 50 and Mariner Boulevard.
The Citrus County bomb squad responded to the scene and x-rayed the package before using a water cannon to blow it up.
Investigators say they are still working to figure out what was inside the package.
Sheriff Nienhuis tells us they have leads about who may have left the package there.
The sheriff’s office has responded to multiple bomb threats over the last three days, all of which have been determined to be unfounded. The most recent bomb threats happened Wednesday morning at Central High School in Brooksville.
