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Arrest made in bomb threat hoax in Naples

Possible explosive device reported in Naples
Possible explosive device reported in Naples
Possible explosive device reported in Naples
Posted at 1:09 PM, Jan 02, 2018
and last updated 2018-01-02 20:00:58-05

**UPDATE (2:10PM)** -- Deputies have made an arrest in Tuesday's bomb threat in Naples, and say the scene is clear.

No explosive device was found.

77-year-old Wayne Yankus was arrested at the scene and charged with making a threat of a hoax bomb and resisting law enforcement.

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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. -- A Goodwill store in Naples was evacuated Tuesday after authorities responded to a possible explosive device off Immokalee Road.

According to a Collier County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, at approximately noon Tuesday, deputies were breaking up an altercation between two men in the store's parking lot on Bellaire Bay Drive.

One of the men locked himself in the other man's vehicle and refused to come out.  Deputies tasered the man and while they were removing him from the vehicle, he stated that there was a bomb in his vehicle.

The area was shut down while deputies investigate the scene.

*UPDATE* -- People were allowed to return to the Goodwill store again around 1:30 p.m.