Bomb threats made to Carmike Cinemas, which owns theaters throughout the Atlanta Metro area, including Movies 400 in Cumming, had local theaters on alert Friday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Sgt. Bryan Zimbardi of the told Cumming Patch that they were contacted by the manager of the local theater, located at 415 Atlanta Road, around 10:30 a.m. and that "Carmike in general received a bomb threat."
"There was no specific or articulated threat to the Cumming theater in particular," said Zimbardi. "So we went through with four officers and cleared the inside of the building and just made sure basically that everything looked to be in place nothing out of the ordinary."
Zimbardi said that every square inch of the building that was assessable was checked out.
Authorities finished up their search around 12:15 p.m. and not long after that patrons were allowed back into the theater, according to Zimbardi. But he pointed out that the decision to reopen Movies 400 was made on a corporate level by Carmike and that the Cumming P.D. had nothing to do with that decision.
"I was not privy or part of that conversation," Zimbardi said.
In Canton, the police chief there said at Carmike Riverstone 15 Cinemas and at the local theater in Snellville, police investigated the scene and .
