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Published September 20, 2012, 12:00 AM

Bomb scare at County Market in Hudson

Coffee containers found to hold only gravel and stones


The Marathon-Oneida County Sheriff's Bomb Squad set off a small explosion to discover what was inside the two coffee containers. It turned out that it was gravel and rocks. Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen speculated that the containers might have been used as a boat anchor.

  • The Marathon-Oneida County Sheriff's Bomb Squad set off a small explosion to discover what was inside the two coffee containers. It turned out that it was gravel and rocks. Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen speculated that the containers might have been used as a boat anchor.
  • Shoppers at County Market were unable to get to their vehicles after the bomb squad from Wausau cordoned off a large area around the suspicious shopping cart.
  • The shopping cart to the right held two coffee plastic coffee contrainers taped together with duct tape. A shopper and County Market managers were afraid the containers were a bomb.
  • Hudson Fire Chief Jim Frye, left, leaves the largely empty County Market parking lot after it is discovered that two suspicious coffee containers hold only dirt and rocks.
  • The eastbound lanes of Crest View Drive from Walmart to Gateway Boulevard were barricaded while authorities investigated a suspicious device left in a County Market shopping cart. Hudson Police have just reopened the lanes here, shortly after 6 p.m.
  • A County Market employee returns the suspicious shopping cart to the store after it was discovered that the two coffee containers taped together inside the cart held only gravel and stones.