{"id":95012,"date":"2023-01-31T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-investigating-threat-of-violence-at-fred-meyer\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:15:28","slug":"police-investigating-threat-of-violence-at-fred-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-investigating-threat-of-violence-at-fred-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating threat of violence at Fred Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article has been updated to include new information. <\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

There is not a current threat at Juneau’s Fred Meyer store, Juneau Police Department stated in a social media post, but police are continuing to investigate a reported threat of violence.<\/p>\n

In an earlier social media post, JPD stated Kroger Inc., the North Carolina-based owner of Fred Meyer, reported that its customer service department had received a phone call from an unknown male who was upset and made a threat of violence at Fred Meyer, according to police. The exact nature of the threat was not specified.<\/p>\n

In an updated post, JPD stated the report was possibly a hoax and compared it to “swatting,” a type of sometimes deadly prank<\/a> in which false reports of serious crimes are made to law enforcement agencies to attract SWAT teams to a location.<\/p>\n